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Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

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No Second Summer

No one is guaranteed a second summer on this earth. I could try to bury this thought in the back of my mind, but I like to keep it right…

The Wild Things | May 2016 | By Beth Malone


Red Chestnut

“Kenna hora,” my mother used to say, a Yiddish phrase that, to the best of my understanding, asks the evil eye to look away. She’d attach it to any mention…

Calling Home | May 2016 | By Ona Gritz


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The Presence of Eagles

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…

The Wild Things | March 2016 | By Beth Malone


Maternal Instinct

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,…

Calling Home | March 2016 | By Ona Gritz


Full Table, Not-So-Empty Nest

As my boy grew into adolescence, I felt my old longing for a fuller table, this time on his behalf. I wanted Ethan to be at the hub of good…

Calling Home | January 2016 | By Ona Gritz


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The Princess and the Snake

To me, the purest form of creative expression would look just like that: Not performed for approval, but done to articulate oneself in a new, larger way. I would like…

The Wild Things | January 2016 | By Beth Malone


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Giving Up Good

The great lie, here, is that in ”having it all,” we have sacrificed nothing. In reality, we’ve sacrificed the act of choice itself. Instead of weighing our options and determining…

The Wild Things | November 2015 | By Beth Malone


Parenting Time

Ten years ago, when I was still working as a librarian, I had a memorable lunch with a colleague. She was older than I, close to retirement age, and her…

Calling Home | November 2015 | By Ona Gritz


Motherhood is Always Saying Good-bye: My Last “Birthing the Mother Writer” Column

This is my last “Birthing the Mother Writer” column for Literary Mama, and so it is a way of saying goodbye to all the readers and reader-writers and editors and…

Birthing the Mother Writer | October 2015 | By Cassie Premo Steele


Connection, Not Perfection

“You know people plan these things a full year in advance,” a good friend of mine pointed out. Her calendar was filling up with work and family commitments. She found…

Calling Home | September 2015 | By Ona Gritz


Reader Response to Birthing the Mother Writer Class 5: The Spectrum of Creative Nonfiction

In our last class before summer break, we explored creative nonfiction as a spectrum that incorporates elements of poetry, fiction, and various nonfiction strategies such as research, journalism, memoir, and…

Birthing the Mother Writer | September 2015 | By Cassie Premo Steele


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