Full Times: When You’re Tired But Can’t Blame the Patriarchy
June 20th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
She resented me for resenting her. Did I really think she wanted to work two jobs?
Browsing the "Hold it Lightly" Tag
Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Novelist Katya Apekina on Russia, Motherhood, and Mother Doll
April 25th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"Russian immigrants find the American friendliness to be off-putting and insane. Why do people smile so much?"
Spice Up Your Life
April 2nd, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Inhabiting a running first-person narrative about how much you suck is not, as it turns out, a particularly productive way to live.
“That Intersection is Everything”: Susan Kiyo Ito on Owning Her Adoption Story
February 15th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"It wasn’t about finances, or youth, or inexperience. It was one hundred percent based on stigma and shame."
Do You See What I See?
January 18th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Did I sense my dad’s sadness about this time of year? Was it the shortening days, the story of a magical baby born in the bleakest of times
Late Summer Lament: Unemployment, Wasted Time, and a Hurriquake
August 23rd, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
I am not using this time to reattach the cupboard doors that fell off their hinges in our kitchen. Instead, I’m becoming unhinged
Going Home Again: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Settler Colonialism, and the Stories We Inherit
July 18th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
As a child I loved the stories so deeply. I resisted rereading the books because I didn’t want to have to hate them
I Can Say This Now
February 27th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
We’d all been holding our breath for so long. We’d all been on our best behavior
Fear and Loving in Los Angeles
January 10th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
My 7-year-old is watching The Croods: A New Age again. It’s better and weirder than you’d think—a tribe of warrior
We All Scream: Jessica Grose on her New Book About American Motherhood
December 13th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
The major roadblock isn’t exhaustion. It is that there are still people who think it’s not the job of the government to help support the next generation of children and their families