Women’s Equality Day commemorates the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, prohibiting states or the federal government from denying any citizen the right...
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I had my fallopian tubes removed in May out of necessity—a routine ‘bilateral salpingectomy’ they called it. We have had a long road to...
I carried you when you were a little bean: Tiny, a secret. I couldn't feel the weight yet, but the tiny decisions I made...
When I grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, homework was a staple of education. Every evening after school, my brothers and sisters and...
When my sister and I were little, we used to play “Slug Bug” in the car. See a VW Beetle, slug the person next...
Disclaimer: This article does not address serious, universally accepted, traumatic adverse childhood experiences, nor does it dismiss them. It is meant purely for entertainment...
When I drop my daughter off at preschool, she doesn't say goodbye anymore. And I'm struggling with how to feel about it.
Morning daycare and...
It happened on a Monday. I was sitting across the table from my husband during lunch, our newborn son asleep in my arms, and...
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I grew up going off to sleepaway camp, packing my trunk and sleeping bag; no technology, friendship bracelets (before Taylor's Version), camp songs, overnights...
My daughter will need so much from me as she grows up, but what she does not need is perfection. It is so easy...
I am the primary caretaker. I spend most of the time with him, yet when his dad gets home, he tells me to go...