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Kari Shea
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January/February 2020

I’m shy of resolutions and their self-defeating magnitude, but with each new year, I return to this quiet intention: to read more books. For most mothers, that’s not as simple as it sounds. Work and family and community involvement take up so much of my time that I can only justify entertainment if I’m being somehow productive at the same time: watching Call the Midwife while I fold laundry, listening to The Splendid Table while I cook, enjoying familiar music while I prepare an editor’s letter

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • Rocky Road

    By Sasha Bailyn

  • T is for Trust

    By Susan Olding

  • Road Trip

    By Lori Miller Kase

  • The Everyday

    By Rachel Fleishman

Fiction

  • Swimming Home

    By Roberta Gore

  • One Slow-Motion Moment

    By Hannah Grieco

  • To Wish and Wish and Wish Properly

    By Katie Venit

Literary Reflections

  • Sand Stories

    By Rachel Sturges

  • Reflections of a Mother Who Writes to Heal

    By T. Pearl Joynz

  • Essential Reading: Historical Fiction

    By Nerys Copelovitz

Poetry

  • Snow Day

    By Kate Campbell

  • He Toddles

    By Cassie Hague

  • Mommy Wars

    By Juliette De Soto

  • Daughter & Mother

    By Amy Small-McKinney

  • Whiskey Boots

    By Allie Spikes

Profiles

  • A Conversation with Nefertiti Austin

    By Deesha Philyaw

  • A Conversation with Sarah Townsend

    By Angelisa Russo

Reviews

  • A Review of Motherhood So White

    By Deesha Philyaw

  • A Review of Hail and Farewell

    By Libby Maxey

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