Women We Read This Week
Rachel Klein’s “The Other Side: Reflections on Motherhood at the Holocaust Museum” in The Toast Upon returning to the Holocaust Museum in D.C., writer…
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#motherhoodthroughinstagram
My baby was 18 months old when I joined Instagram. I figured the platform would be a way to connect with other mothers and…
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Everyday Geography
I have never been good with my hands. By this I don’t mean, “Oh, I can’t handsew little cat ornaments to gift at birthday parties,” or, “I could never make my toddler a homemade dinosaur costume for Halloween.”
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Tough Odds, Lady Bird
I first noticed the robin one day in early June, as she swiped dead stalks from one of the two potted lavender plants on our deck.
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Women We Read This Week
Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions” in Harper’s Solnit’s essay opens, as so many do, with questions—but this one in a literal, external…
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No Comments
“The comments are a shit show.” This from a friend on Facebook, a warning perhaps or an expression of vicarious disappointment. “I read the first one and threw my phone across the room.”
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Writing Like a Mother(f*cker)
In the first few months after the baby is born, I experience a singing clarity: Milk! Diapers! Milk! Diapers! Lusty oxytocin! Sleep! Cheez-it binge! Sleep! I have cleared out a space–no, cleared out my whole brain–for this time, and I have no expectation of writing.
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The Motherhood Mask
By the time I was in my late twenties, taking a pregnancy test when my period was late had become reflexive.
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Beginnings, Ends, and In-Betweens: An Interview With Sarah Manguso
“I don’t think in stories, I never have. I know that everybody does, that we do think in stories, that’s like a physiological necessity. I guess I’m interested in parts of stories, but this whole idea of having a narrative arc with a beginning a middle and an end, that just never really worked on me.”
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Sarah Menkedick’s Four Books on Early Motherhood
Sarah Menkedick recommends four books on early motherhood. “One of the many surprises of pregnancy was the craving I developed for literature, not too distant in its urgency from the craving for Haribo gummy raspberries.”
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Women We Read This Week
Lynsey Addario’s “What Can a Pregnant Photojournalist Cover? Everything.” in The New York Times I could not put this piece down, and after reading…
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Women We Read This Week
Irina Reyn’s “The Photograph” in Brain, Child In the Facebook era, the absence of public documentation of certain events in one’s life speaks as…
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