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mother-daughter relationships

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We Are All We Have

by Megan Stielstra December 13, 2019December 30, 2022

While caring for her mother post-surgery and her grandmother during her final days, Megan Stielstra wonders who’s really taking care of who.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism

by Alicia Lutes October 18, 2019January 20, 2023

Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

What’s Happening to My Body?

by Devorah Heitner September 12, 2019January 27, 2023

Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.

Posted inNonfiction

One Man’s Poison

by Kyoko Mori September 2, 2019January 27, 2023

The only way to protect herself from her father was to erase him from her life, but she survived being his daughter by acting just like he did.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Riding the Highs and Lows with My Mom

by Valentina Valentini August 21, 2019February 3, 2023

On a night out in the Hollywood hills, Valentina Valentini’s lifelong role-reversal with her mother becomes upended.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Bonding with My ‘In-Law’ Over Bikini Wax

by Lisa A. Phillips July 22, 2019February 10, 2023

When her 13-year-old daughter finds love a stone’s throw away, Lisa A. Phillips confronts the inevitability of first heartbreak.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

The Burdens We Carry

by Amy Scheiner July 1, 2019February 10, 2023

Amy Scheiner reflects on her mother’s sudden death and what it means to be a woman in a world that is set up to bury them.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Game of Crones

by Sari Botton May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Game of Crones

by Laura Lippman May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

Game of Crones

by Laura Lippman May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

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