Family Hard Luck: On Motherlessness
It never really hurts, except when you allow yourself to imagine: what if things had turned out differently?
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Family “All White,” All Hers: Rebuilding My Adoption Story
Katie Klabusich on how she finally learned the whole truth about her adoption origin story, and how it explained so many things about her childhood.
Family “Please correct”: Editing My Mother’s English
Jasmine Riad on the task of correcting her mother's English and the challenge of finding the right words when dealing with ignorance.
Family The Power of Storytelling: Watching All My Children with My Mom
Val Wang on her mother's history and faulty memory, and how familiar stories and 'All My Children' provided needed touchstones in her life.
Family Things No One Tells You About Cancer
Kate Andries on what people did and didn't tell her when she was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 23.
Family On My Mother and the Person I Could Have Become
"The fake me created by my mother has come to mirror the differences between her and me -- two sides of a coin that can't be reconciled."
Family Notes on a New Age Childhood
"Sometimes . . . I am filled like a lantern with faith in a world that is by definition sacred, whatever its failures. And yet I do not believe."
Family Swimming Lessons for Black Girls
Christienna Fryar on her years as a competitive swimmer and the need for Black people to feel safe and welcomed at public swimming pools.
Family Oddly Specific Fears For My Children
Jessica Roake has some very specific fears about the choices her children may make in their lives.
Family My Mother, the Doula
Carly Lane considers her mother's job as a doula and her role in the lives of the mothers she supports.
Family “Mano Po”: On Family, Religion, and Rebellion
The author on her upbringing in a religious family, and how she learned that she had more in common with her mother than she once believed.
Family Prospective Titles For My Daughter’s Tell-All Memoir
Oh, the things Nicole's daughter will complain about.
Sex The Secret To Having Sex After Giving Birth
I mean, it's ONE secret, not, like, THE secret.
Family Letter To My Mother After Charleston
Carvell Wallace writes a letter to his late mother about yesterday's white supremacist massacre in Charleston.
Family Snaggle Tooth
Lacy Warner on how her mother's health issues and her grandmother's death brought her "into the family tradition of daughters taking care of mothers."
