Nov/Dec 2022

Mornings are dark and the heat is on. Here we are, zipping up our little ones in bulky parkas before school, shivering as we watch the too-cool older ones eschew…

A frank conversation about systemic racism in the United States and its surprising similarity to narcissistic personality disorder.

An honest, heartfelt conversation between mother and daughter about writing together, family secrets, and the pursuit of truth and justice.

“I hope that people who are struggling to become mothers will come away with more compassion for themselves—and that includes people who, for whatever reasons, never end up becoming mothers.”

“For a while, every essay I wrote, when I got to the really true thing at the end, it was love. Just love.”

I am perched on my shadow. // Morning sings the sun’s song

Since much grows in mud, not in spite of mud, / I’m making a life out of my little failures.

It’s so cool, he says, there’s a word for that. I wish / I knew a word for everything.

Doomed or blessed to die where she birthed / Never tasting weightlessness

Love wins, they say. And it does. But / parenting can also feel like swallowing shimmering / glass sometimes

so only I / saw as the heron / leapt, claiming the air.