Yearly Archives: 2014

And remember the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, "You wouldn't worry so much about what others thought of you when you realize how seldom they actually do."

So much of what we want to happen to our children when we are parents, crawling, walking, running, talking, and on and on, is so confusing, and we never know how or when it will start, and when it does start, it seems like magic. We don’t know why it’s happening. It just does when it does.

Being a 13 year old who cares about climate change can be lonely.

Things that didn’t happen: I didn’t grow a set of balls to start helping out the neglected women.

Joe told me that Debby was on a layover in Paris. She had collapsed, had a cardiac arrest, was in the hospital, in a medically induced coma, but she was fine. For a moment I felt my own heart stop. I had questions, but I couldn't articulate them at first.

By Jennifer Maher. Resolve, The National Infertility Association of America, lists a variety of emotional and physical symptoms in response to not getting pregnant when...

Dear Breasts, We’ve had a parting of ways of late. Two pregnancies and two breastfed babies later, you’ve decided to de-friend me and befriend gravity, forcing me to heftily rely on and rendering me beholden to the much-needed sturdy, non-sexy bras that no woman wants to be seen buying, because you are well on your way to touching my toes

By Lisa McElroy. It turns out that, when you’re writing your first novel, finding a hook is crazy hard. How can you capture a reader’s...

“We are,” my friend noted, “in the dark ages with gender.”

By Teri Carter. I carry a myth. In the myth, I am 36 years old, and I meet my father at my mother’s funeral....