Literary Reflections

In this month’s “A Vinyl Batgirl Notebook,” Jessica Smartt Gullion tries to carve creative time out of household chaos. How do you handle interruptions? How do you they affect your…

The kids are fighting again: “She keeps goin’ in my room!” “He hitted me!” “She push-ted me first!” “Mama!” “Mama!” I wipe a Clorox-coated rag across the blue paint-splattered pattern…

Gorgeous weather, spring sports, and end-of-the-year school activities find us outside, leaving less time to read, but we hope our readers find something of interest here. Download the list here…

In honor of National Poetry Month, we dedicate our April Essentials to our favorite poetry collections. Spread the word! Download the list here and bring it to your favorite mama-friendly…

Author Lily Dayton writes in those stolen moments between “potty training and ballet practice, laundry loads and dinner on the table.” Jotting thoughts in a journal helps her keep track…

I write between the cracks of my life, the narrow space I have left between potty training and ballet practice, laundry loads and dinner on the table by six. Because…

We asked our editors and columnists to look in their book bags and on their night stands to tell us what they’re currently reading. We hope our readers find titles…

Memoirs and biographies provide us with opportunities to enter the lives of people we may never meet face to face, and our lives are enriched by reading about their experiences…

In “Green Means Go,” writer Terri Scullen Terri explores the sometimes frustrating, sometimes triumphant stop and start quality that motherhood has brought to her writing process. “I’m about to give…

We asked our editors and columnists to look in their book bags and on their night stands to tell us what they’re currently reading. We hope our readers find titles…

This is how I keep from sneaking wine on a school day: alone in the empty, silent house, I write, write, write. The party’s in my head: protagonists in exotic…