Mature Minor: An Interview with Emi Nietfeld About Her Memoir, Acceptance
September 12th, 2023 | by Jenny Bartoy
I still feel that my life has this paradox: I was resilient. And I'm also broken inside by what happened to me, like most people are
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“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me
A Portrait of the Mother as Love on Fire: Death, Forgiveness, and Abolition (part I)
September 14th, 2021 | by Karissa Welch T.
I called Child Protection Services and asked them to do a well-check on my sister-in-law and her family. The police reported that the hotel room was messy, but nothing was obviously amiss.
Water I’ve Loved: Camp Kiwanis Infirmary
September 10th, 2021 | by Pam Wye
The woods at camp were always so dark
Water I’ve Loved: When Dad Died
June 11th, 2021 | by Pam Wye
When dad died, my mother was drunk on the couch
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May 6th, 2021 | by Leslie Lindsay
For our youngest daughter’s fourteenth birthday, my husband and I gave her a hard-cover Mediterranean-blue Samsonite with wheels. Also, a
My Bipolar Baby Decision: Who Should Be a Mother?
May 14th, 2020 | by Elizabeth Drucker
Without medications, I’m terrified of what my life might look like. But on medication, my stability is complicated by my deep ache to become a mother.
Water I’ve Loved: Little Clues
August 13th, 2019 | by Pam Wye
Let it wash over you: The sixth installment of Pam Wye’s “Water I’ve Loved” graphic memoir, which she is serializing
Attachment Wounds: Writer Frances Badalmenti on the Legacy of Mental Illness and the Appeal of a White Duvet
May 28th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
"There was this tremendous fear of intimacy, which was rooted in the fear of loss.... We both knew that this was going to be our story and that our story would be very powerful."
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