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Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS, and Childlessness
S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.
Posted inReading List, Sports
The Best of City And Regional Magazines: A Reading List
These features show a rigorous approach to the truth, a convergence of the of the personal and political, and excellent writing.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Parenting Class Dropout
During her high-risk pregnancy, driven by a longing for normalcy, Paulette Kamenecka tried out a class for parents-to-be.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Finally Seeing the Forest for the Trees
After a spate of trauma and loss, Maura Kelly retreats to the Hudson Valley where she is converted into a ‘nature person.’
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Diagnosis and Surgery I Had to Fight For
A series of doctors made it harder for me to learn about my severe uterine condition, and receive the hysterectomy I needed for it.
Posted inNonfiction
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
Posted inReading List
Between Life and Death, There’s San Francisco: A Reading List
The Golden Gate Bridge has long embodied the contradictions of the city it overlooks: ambition, connection, innovation, a beginning and an end.
Posted inMedia, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story
In 1975, Newsweek Predicted A New Ice Age. We’re Still Living with the Consequences.
All climate change deniers needed was one article to cast doubt on the science of global warming.
