Bobby, Danny, Kathy, Carol, Jimmy, Karen, and Sharron. They would accompany me most everywhere — going to ballet class, ...

You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Cycle-breaking is the idea that we ...

Climate change isn’t going to happen, it’s happening — not to someone else, but to me and my young children, now.

And what about the parents giving birth in the labor delivery unit, or coming in for needed C-sections or inductions? The ...

“Now she can go to college,” I joked to a friend of mine when I finally managed to procure for my 5-month-old daughter a Lovevery Play Gym. More expensive than another other baby gym on the ...

“I knew it would be bad, I just didn’t know it would all happen so fast,” Hannah Baker*, a 32-year-old mother of one in the southeastern United States, tells me. “I had already made up my ...

In the delirium of the newborn months, my partner, Megan, and I found ourselves completely bereft of anything interesting to say, apart from running commentary on our one subject and singular ...

When I was pregnant with my first baby, I enrolled us in the multi-evening childbirth education course offered by our HMO, where my husband and I sat in a little circle with other couples and took ...

When I was about 10 years old, a boy who attended my church died. His name was Antonio and we sang in the youth choir together. He drowned at Blue Lake Park on the 4th of July. I remember singing ...

I was born with nystagmus, a neurological condition that affects my vision, and until I was in my 30s, I’d only met one person that shared it. At a holiday party with my parents when I was ...