Issue Archives
September/October 2026
What is a mother if not a shock absorber?
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July/August 2026
open yourself to the inevitability of the pendulum
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May/June 2026
This moment is about accepting where I am.
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March/April 2026
We will scream until our throats are ragged, and then we will read bedtime stories.
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January/February 2026
if I were to name a goal for 2026, it might be to let the YOLO spirit of my offspring get the better of my ingrained caution more often.
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November/December 2025
The Empire never really wins, as long as we are prepared to hold it accountable, time and time again.
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September/October 2025
I think that’s what motherhood is about—this small piece of hope that we carry around with us like a pebble.
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July/August 2025
With this issue of Literary Mama, we all keep on—reading and writing and coming together at this site. I hope you choose everything on offer, and that you find something wonderful.
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May/June 2025
Literary Mama shows me my Frankenstein again and again—not cruelly or even intentionally, but by allowing me access to the kaleidoscopic moments of so many other mothers.
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March/April 2025
I’d like to time-hop, jump forward a little and come back with the insight needed to do all of this mothering stuff right and better embrace the messiness of now.
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January/February 2025
I didn’t fully realize the power of this journal until everyone thought it was gone for good.
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