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mothers and daughters

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Ungrown

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“Here it is: Women are the gravity stopping humanity from drifting off aimlessly into the void. We mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, grandmothers — women — are the backbone of the world.”

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Out There I Have to Smile

by Heather Lanier March 2, 2021October 12, 2022

Heather Lanier explores the pressure to perform happiness.

Posted inNonfiction

What Didn’t Kill Her

by Bernice L. McFadden June 4, 2020November 25, 2022

Bernice L. McFadden ruminates on all the things her mother has endured only to find herself spending her golden years in the midst of a deadly plague and state-sanctioned racism.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Sharing Food to Feed A Family’s Soul

by Aaron Gilbreath May 13, 2020October 19, 2022

Food feeds the body, but cooking for other people feeds human connections.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

At Mrs. Balbir’s

by Jillian Dunham January 27, 2020December 30, 2022

Jillian Dunham traveled thousands of miles from home to get away from her grief. It found her anyway, in a stranger’s Bangkok apartment.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

Searching Sephora for an Antidote to Aging — and Grief

by Abby Mims January 14, 2020December 30, 2022

Five years after her mother’s death, while still grieving and suddenly middle-aged, Abby Mims turns to beauty products to cure what ails her.

Posted inNonfiction

The Christmas Tape

by Wendy McClure December 23, 2019December 30, 2022

Wendy McClure recounts how an old audio tape of holiday music becomes a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.

Posted inStory

Cut From the Same Cloth

by Myfanwy Tristram September 19, 2019January 27, 2023

Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.

Posted inNonfiction

In the Country of Women

by Susan Straight August 6, 2019February 3, 2023

Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

Does the Woman in the Painting Have a Secret?

by Longreads April 24, 2019October 19, 2022

In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.

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