While I knew I was lucky to have everything I’d worked for—family, a new apartment, financial stability—I also knew that I had never felt so lonely. My phone buzzed. I looked down at the text message on the glowing blue screen. The words took a moment to sink in. It was like being back in middle school […]
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, […]
“Living through what turned out to be nine days alone with my newborn daughter was the mothering equivalent of scaling Mt. Everest for me.” Growing up, I always knew there was some kind of dark secret surrounding my paternal grandmother. We never talked about her for a start. And the only photo I could find of […]
