Women We Read This Week
This might come as a shock, but this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yes. Perhaps you’ve seen things about it in the media. With that in…
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The Book And The Baby
Exactly one week before my first book came out, my daughter weaned and potty trained. She did this in a day. After months, maybe even a year, of my hand-wringing about a possible eternity of diapers, about when and how to perfectly ease her off the boob, she woke up one morning and became a kid.
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SuperBabies Don’t Cry
When I was pregnant, I tried to make a SuperBaby. I did not realize I was doing this. I believed I’d long ago shed the theory that a body could be made perfect. But looking back, my goal was clear.
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Metal and Shrine: A Becoming
SAN FRANCISCO Orange, she says. I am standing next to a punch bowl talking to my husband’s boss. We have told too many people…
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A Thing of Beauty
unch at the Fournets is just as I imagined it would be. Their apartment is tidy but stylish, colorful but understated. The two girls,…
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Women We Read This Week
Kate Shellnutt’s “Why 30 is the decade friends disappear — and what to do about it” in Vox “It’s crucial that we keep at…
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Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid
Recently, I was in New York City to do some publicity, and I was staying in a Holiday Inn in the Gowanus Canal of Brooklyn where the elevator shook and moaned every time we went to our tenth floor room as though the shaft were too small and the elevator was just barely squeezing through.
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Map of a Small Loss
hen you lose something you want desperately to find, you begin to see it everywhere, just before you actually turn to look. These visions…
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The Mule Deer
When my oldest son is the size of an apple, my belly begins to push out against my overalls. It is late summer, and the monsoons have brought a week of night rain in the Arizona desert.
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In Defense of Motherhood as Art
The most surprising aspect of motherhood for me has been my desire, often fierce, often voracious, to defend it.
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Portrait of a New Mom With Smartphone
How to shower when alone with baby, I type into Safari. 21,500,000 results flutter back at me, a ticker tape parade of anxiety and confusion. My favorites are the forums, rife with desperation, spelling mistakes, and a slew of unfamiliar acronyms.
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Women We Read This Week
Jessica Pishko’s “It Took Being in an Abusive Relationship to Make Me Understand the Importance of Access to Abortion” in Elle Jessica Pishko adds…
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