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This deeply moving memoir explores the dichotomy of highs and lows, questions and feelings, and the mixed dreams and realities of mothering five children, ages infant to teen.

This is something that has always haunted me: We all have the power, at any moment, to ruin our own lives. To hurt someone we love dearly.

Sara Menkedick’s Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America poignantly reflects on a mother’s fourth trimester—a time period filled with angst and anxiety

My anxiety is high as I wait for my school district to decide about fall. I wait even though I have already decided my kids will not go back in person.

It was the moment my daughter refused to collude, wanting instead to strike out on her own, no matter what the consequences.

Writers these days seem to fall into two camps with regard to writing during the pandemic: paralysis or extreme productivity

Consider his laughter, the sound of explosion / the slivers of lizard that land in his hair.

When you could not describe pain, you screamed / until I felt it. Your eyes like a cat’s saucer, licked / clean.

Love has small hands, a voracious mouth

Abandoning all pragmatism, we packed up our things, broke the contract on a house we were set to buy elsewhere, and moved to the beach.

Control, or rather the pursuit of it, is on my mind as I scrub the kitchen and bathroom counters today…