Breastfeeding was a war zone and we were both casualties. It was my friend who finally made me see sense. She’s a doctor so her opinion cut through in a way my other friends couldn’t, even if they’d told me the same thing. “Mia, you’ve been on antibiotics for 70 days in the past six […]
What drives young men who commit horrific crimes? It may be a simple lack of basic morality. Lately, when I see a scowling teenage boy walking through my suburban town, skateboard clutched under one arm, a starscape of acne across his forehead, I experience a quiver of anxiety. The same apprehension clutches me when a […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. Of course I didn’t think that this was how things would turn out: as a little girl, reading stories in which every woman’s narrative (even the feminist ones, like Anne Shirley of Green Gables) concluded in the happiness of coupledom, I did not anticipate […]
