The World Ought to Know Something of Your Shimmers: Poems
May 23rd, 2024 | by Melinda Coppola
Your questions refresh with their honesty, jostle assumptions, make space for wonder
Browsing the "writer moms" 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?"
From Start to Finish
March 26th, 2024 | by India Akua Mendonca
While I love being a mother to my daughter, it’s hard to reconcile who I used to be — a writer — with who I am now
Spilling Your Guts: Motherhood, Memoir, and What I Learned from David Sedaris
February 27th, 2024 | by Irena Smith
I would rewrite the autism narrative. It would be literate, snarky, dark, and funny. The subtext, of course, was that our extraordinary child would also recover, though I would never use that word.
Why More Parents Should Let Teens Read Sex Scenes
July 11th, 2023 | by Kerry Chaput
If popular culture exposed me to sex as a positive experience, maybe I wouldn’t have been so afraid
Swagger Like Us
July 5th, 2023 | by Sumitra Mattai
Our first child was two years old when my husband told me I’d “lost my swagger.”
“All the parts work together”: Author Sara Nović on Identity, Adoption, and Falling Short as a Parent
June 1st, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
You can genuinely want what's best for your kids and be dead wrong about what it is.
On Reaching: A Conversation with Majka Burhardt
March 7th, 2023 | by Brianna Avenia-Tapper
"It is the ability to be okay with the change and the movement. To ask, 'What are the tools that I have before me right now and what’s the choice that I need to make right now?' That’s climbing in a nutshell, and that’s mothering in a nutshell."
“I Knew That I Could Do This”: Excerpt from THREE QUEERDOS AND A BABY
December 21st, 2022 | by Nina Packebush
Having a baby at seventeen ruins any chance you can ever be anyone’s idea of an ideal mom
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