I learn something new from them almost daily, in large part because they have generously made space for me in their lives. To say my first pregnancy caught me at unawares would be to understate the surprise of my young life. A series of medical events led me to believe that my ability to conceive […]
Most nights we fought, and there was a constant tension between us, a tension that felt confusing, because we were working together to raise our baby, but pulling apart in so many other ways. The sippy cup spout was still gunky, smeared with the remnants of a half-squished date. I stared at it in disbelief, […]
An on-site village will always be ideal for new parents wondering who and where they are on the other side of delivery. But the Internet doesn’t have to be a poor substitution. On my first day alone with our newborn daughter, I considered begging my husband to quit his job. We had only lived in […]
I finally had everything I always wanted. And I was miserable. A candle flickered on my desk, the sun dipping low in the distance, signaling an early end to the daylight hours of a late November day. I looked out, over the top of my computer screen, acutely aware of the fact that a blanket of […]
In the life of an over-doer, parenthood is a kind of torture therapy. You get over yourself by having no time for yourself. At the height of my most successful period as a young writer in my 20s, I was also at my most miserable. I hosted a weekly literary reading series in the red-hued […]
I, too, championed the Breast is Best philosophy, but what happens when what’s best for most isn’t an option for some? He came early. It wasn’t time yet. I hadn’t even shaved my legs. Keeping with the tradition of the second child treatment, we also hadn’t purchased a thing. What size would he be anyway? […]
