Once, in town to help me take care of our 6-month-old while her son was traveling, my mother-in-law and I watched a movie about a woman whose dad is dying. Nodding toward the baby asleep on my chest, ...
It’s an endless cycle of purging and adding, of organizing and reorganizing. Of realizing the system you had when they were ...
I had a crazy idea, I told her. Something that would save us time and increase our intimacy — it would be like the ...
At first, I didn't know how to be a sexual person and a parent. Which was fair, because nothing in life prepared me for that.
Growing up, I used to beg my parents to have another baby. “Please,” I would plead with them, “I need a brother or sister!” I really wanted a sister when I was younger, but as I got older ...
"We see you, cycle-breakers." I encounter this phrase regularly on TikTok and Instagram and I am, without a doubt, the target audience. Like so much modern-day online parenting content, at its ...
I peered out in the dark, the barely begun Eaton fire still miles away from our house: “If our house burned down, what would you miss the most?” “Kira. All of Altadena would have to burn ...