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Red Diaper Dharma

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.

In Memoriam

Bill Sonnenschein March 15, 1949 – December 29, 2008 All of us at Literary Mama are deeply saddened to learn of the death of columnist Ericka Lutz’s husband Bill Sonnenschein.…

Red Diaper Dharma | January 2009 | By Ericka Lutz


Holding

A painting I did the first year Bill and I were together shows a field of green. In the center there’s a floating bed, and in the middle of the…

Red Diaper Dharma | December 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


My Goddess Years?

One of my favorite Roz Chast cartoons shows a woman in her forties or fifties wearing a flowing baggy dress with a wild hairstyle and clunky jewelry. The words read:…

Red Diaper Dharma | November 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


Political Fire

My daughter turns sixteen this month. Not such a sweet sixteen, a birthday plagued by the presidential election. I ask her what she thinks of the conflagration: red state vs.…

Red Diaper Dharma | September 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


The Popular Girl

I know people who seem to morph: one year she’s a radical lesbian scorning the system, and five years later she’s an upper-middle class doctor’s wife driving carpool; one year…

Red Diaper Dharma | August 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


My Teenage Companion

It’s last month. We’re on a road trip, Annie and I. Nine days through California, Nevada, and Arizona. Motels and hotels, national parks and ghost towns, road food. It’s June,…

Red Diaper Dharma | July 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


The Missing Years

I ran feral for five or six years in my early twenties. These are years my family knows little about. Oh, I sometimes share a few impressive incidents here and…

Red Diaper Dharma | June 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


The Family Food

Like our dog Mollie, a brown-eyed, sausage-bodied Labrador-mix, my family is completely obsessed with food. Some families drink, and that’s a part of their culture. Some do sports. Some focus…

Red Diaper Dharma | May 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


My Upcoming Life as a Part-Time Wife

Bill and I have been going on about life, and it’s been good. The same house for the last nine years, the same university jobs, slow increases in salary and…

Red Diaper Dharma | April 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


The Hands On/Hands Off Mother

How do you parent a teenager, how do you raise an independent child without either suppressing her spirit or making her feel uncared for? Maybe I struggle with this because…

Red Diaper Dharma | March 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


On Binges and Benders

Unlike the disciplined writers I know and admire who get bits done every day, I write in blurts, in bursts, in short binges fueled by roasted unsalted almonds, dark chocolate,…

Red Diaper Dharma | February 2008 | By Ericka Lutz


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