Kudos

Just seeing the baby’s head wobble made her want to cry, especially since she discovered the warm circle that marked the entry to his brain. But she knew how vulnerable…

I catch grace when I stop contemplating the stupid thing I said to a friend last week or even what I’m going to write in this very column later. I…

Ethan is in college two hundred miles away. We speak on the phone an average of twice a week. In the absence of my one child from my day-to-day life,…

I am terrifically proud of my little reader. Other, unexpected feelings are at play, however. Becoming a mother has introduced—and reintroduced—a range of emotions which often leave me befuddled.

When my daughter asked through the computer screen if she was pretty, I heard the response in my head, Why do you want to be pretty? I was asking the…

Our reading lists at Literary Mama have often featured biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, and fictionalized lives of real women. This month, we focus exclusively on that literary category.