Kira Martin struggles through her connection – both emotional and physical – with her troubled and destructive son.
motherhood
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Indignities of Poverty, Compounded by the Requirement to Prove It
In an excerpt from her debut memoir, Stephanie Land recalls being poor, and moving with her young daughter from a homeless shelter to transitional housing.
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Motherhood: ‘Thank God I think I love it??’
“We are experts in our own lives, but ignored by the world at large.”
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‘She changed my heart. And that changed my mind.’
“There was so much I could have given her, but it pales in comparison to what she gave me.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Dress You Up in My Love
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Birth Plan for Dying
Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
A Birth Plan for Dying
Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story
Mega-drought and Me
As California gets drier, a woman entering her 30s reflects on PCOS, pregnancy, and her desire to have children.
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Becoming a Woman Who Yells at Her Children
If yelling is the new spanking, where does that leave the progressive, occasionally voice-raising parent?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
O, Small-bany! Part 2: Winter
Notes from an awful winter.