All parents, whatever our skin color, must demand something better for our country than a militarized police force.
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I Evacuated From Minneapolis. This is What I Told My 4-Year-Old
White people like me need to listen to black people and keep talking to our children about race, justice, and what’s right.
I Live in Minneapolis. This Is What I Told My 4-Year-Old.
White people like me need to talk about race, justice, and what’s right. Even when we are worried we’ll get it wrong.
Savoring Stopped Me From Wasting My Life
What secondary infertility taught me the role of attention, acceptance, and appreciation in creating a well-lived life.
The Professionalism of Caregivers
Nothing will change for doctors and nurses until we, as a society, reckon with the way we undervalue caregivers and “women’s work.”
Don’t Post, Don’t Tell
Mothers in America are not allowed to claim the elements of a good story online, and it’s hurting them in real life.
Mothers & Makers
What it means to me to participating in Jessica Holleque’s wonderful photography project, Mothers & Makers.
We Shouldn’t Praise Each Other For Doing Things That Look Hard
We should praise each other for doing things that ARE hard.
Happy Birthday Little Flower
O made an important discovery in our yard yesterday. “Mama, this little flower is born!” Sure enough, the periwinkle bud that had been closed tight for the past week had unfurled while we slept. “It’s the flower’s birth day!” O said. So we made a dirt cake (“Flowers like dirt,” O explained); we topped itContinue reading “Happy Birthday Little Flower”
A Room of My Own
Being location-independent has its perks, but, as Virginia Woolf observed in her classic essay A Room of One’s Own, “A woman must have…a room of her own if she is to write.”