She Wasn’t Ever Ours to Keep
February 5th, 2024 | by Elizabeth di Grazia
Every time Mayra was pregnant, the father said the child was not his. But after he learned we'd adopted one of his children, he threatened to kidnap her
Browsing the "Travel" Tag
Sea Watch
October 23rd, 2023 | by Amanda Fields
I should have stopped it when he told me that his cat likes crazy women, and his cat likes me.
Liminal Village: Adoption, COVID, and Homes in the Air
September 27th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
The NICU social worker said Joey was ready to graduate. She talked to us like we were already his mothers.
Can I Raise Worldly Kids Without Choking the Planet?
August 29th, 2022 | by Michele Bigley
Then, when I had my sons, I was all about taking them with me around the world.
Mothering in the Anthropocene
April 22nd, 2022 | by Michele Bigley
The future we’ve been warned about is here. Now what
FOURTEEN
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
PANDEMIC POETRY: Dana Salvador’s “Two-week Quarantine”
September 15th, 2020 | by Dana Salvador
We took our temperatures and watched the white petals shake themselves free,
YOU CAN TAKE A BABY TO SCOTLAND: An Excerpt from Ayun Halliday’s NO TOUCH MONKEY!
September 24th, 2015 | by Ayun Halliday
I’ve gushed on about Ayun Halliday in these pages before. She is one of MUTHA’s mother/writer idols. So, hey—guess what? Feminist
Bryanna Millis on BEING A GLOBETROTTER MUTHA
June 4th, 2014 | by Bryanna Millis
I am an artist, poet, and international economist, by way of graphic design and documentary filmmaking. What I am not