Advice Ask Bear: On Parenting and Prison
S. Bear Bergman, The Butter's advice columnist, responds to a letter-writer who may be facing jail time and wonders what and when to tell their children.
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The Butter All’s For Him: A Short Story
A short story by Donna Vitucci.
The Butter Lard, or the Origin of Remedy: Flash Fiction
The Butter presents a new work of flash fiction by Amy Sayre Baptista.
Relationships Full Battle Rattle
After her boyfriend's death, dating felt a bit like a combat zone to Glendaliz Camacho, but the emotional protective gear she donned soon became obsolete.
Health Disrupting Domesticity: Mental Illness & Love as a Fact
Ashley Ford and her partner Kelly on living with mental illness, and living with and loving someone affected by mental illness.
Poetry This Writer’s On Fire: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
A profile of writer, poet, and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Family The One-Hundred-Year-Flood
A historic Texas flood reveals an addiction, and threatens to drown a new marriage.
Family Sibling Rivalry and A Capella
Caitlin Bergh on her past and present relationship with her brother, the other Bergh.
Advice Ask Bear: Is This a Good Idea?
The Butter debut of "Ask Bear," a weekly advice column from S. Bear Bergman.
The Butter For Years I Dreamed of Ink Stains
"Most important is to understand that everything is woven together—the secrets and the not eating and the string of men I turned into numbers."
The Butter The Danger of Being a Woman
The author on living in and teaching her daughter to navigate a dangerous world.
Books Literary Ladies Cage Fight: Independence Day Rematch!
The Butter's Literary Ladies Cage Fight matchup: Janie from Zora Neale Hurston’s THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD vs. Dorothea from George Eliot’s MIDDLEMARCH.
Family How to Cope with Your Sibling’s Mental Illness
Dena Afrasiabi writes for The Butter about what her brother's mental illness means for her.
The Butter Body Politics: A Trip to the Gym
Would you like to hear a really awkward gym story? Okay.
The Butter World of Wonder: Aye-Aye
Aimee Nezhukumatathil introduces you to the aye-aye in her latest World of Wonder column for The Butter.
