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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.

Change of Scenery

We live in Malibu now. After seven years in the middle of Los Angeles, my husband and I decided it was time. Time to find a place where we could…

Mother and Other | July 2004 | By Rachel Iverson


Independence Day

It’s a Wednesday morning in June, and my family has just dropped me off at the airport. I walk in, pulling a small rolling bag behind me and carrying a…

Children's Lit Book Group | July 2004 | By Libby Gruner


The Warden

Recently, my husband let my daughter draw on his face with a felt pen. When she did it at age two, it was just plain funny. At six, though, not…

Mother Angst | July 2004 | By Joanne Catz Hartman


Condition Orange

At about 7:15 on September 11th, 2001, Daddy Sparta, my police officer/soldier husband, called me on his way to work and woke me up. “Are you listening to the news?”…

Mommy Athens: Daddy Sparta | July 2004 | By Sophia Raday


Staying Cool

Once upon a time, I used to be cool. I wasn’t cool in high school. Back then I studied too hard and was considered a geek. I wasn’t cool in…

Mom and Pop Culture | June 2004 | By Lizbeth Finn-Arnold


Lost and Found, Part 1

I’ve just put on broth for chicken soup. The house is unusually quiet for 6 p.m., with Zoë at work on math problems and her little sister Cleo in the…

Mama in the Middle | June 2004 | By Sybil Lockhart


Empathy

Empathy is a hard thing for a preschooler to understand. “Emi!” I snap as she deliberately shoves her baby brother to the floor while he walks by. “Nate was in…

Mother Shock | June 2004 | By Andrea J. Buchanan


Just Us Always

Before we were a family there was just us. Just me and you, Husband, documented with a cheesy mirror we found in a gas station just outside of Reno. “Just…

Sex in the Suburbs | June 2004 | By Heidi Raykeil


Family Lit 101

The first day of my “Themes in American Literature” class began with uncomfortable silence. I felt (though did not see) the collective rolling of 64 pairs of teenage eyes when…

Mothering in the Ivory Tower | June 2004 | By Amy Hudock


Yes, Sweetie, Baby Sister is Black Like Us

“He’s not one of the cool boys. The brown boys are cool, but he’s not.” Then-almost-four-year-old Taylor pointed at a magazine photo of Israeli-born hip-hop music exec Lyor Cohen posing…

The Girl is Mine | June 2004 | By Deesha Philyaw


Dia De La Madre

Dar mucho, pedir poco. “Give much, ask for little.” This is the motto of the “motherhood medallion,” created in 1969 here in Spain to acknowledge the many sacrifices involved in…

Mothering Abroad | June 2004 | By Kate MacVean


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