The One Thing That Shocked Me About LulaRoe
As a Mormon mother, I'd gotten used to being sold MLMs. I didn't think I could be shocked anymore! I was wrong.
Newsletters
Motherhood
Many Happy Returns: A Birthday on September 11
My daughter was born on 9/11. People said I should tell her she was born on the 9/10 instead.
Home
By Design
White communists, socialists, feminists, and capitalists tried to engineer society through kitchen design.
ADHD
The Starts and Ends of Creation
As the tide rises, the effectiveness of my ADHD medication descends.
Fill Every War Plane with Refugees
We sent planes to Afghanistan full of troops, guns and maladapted intention. They always came back hollow. This time send them empty and bring them back full.
Tree of Life
Americans are refusing vaccines because they've forgotten that it's natural for children to die of infection disease.
Emotional Support Kitchen
It's a comfort to gain so much control over an outcome. Even when that outcome is one single roasted carrot.
Motherhood
Mommies of Instagram
They weren't being paid for care work, they were being paid for their online depiction of care work.
Liberation
Round Dance
We dance holding hands because we are all on this journey together.
Entropy
Heat Domes + Fire Crumbs
Pregnant during a once in a lifetime heat wave that happens twice every summer.
War
If We Die, We Want to Die Together
The state can always find a reason for us to kill each other.
Patriarchy
Angry Girls, Angry Women
What was the first album by a woman you remember feeling was forbidden?
Marriage
The Colonoscopy + The Couple
There is no ladylike way to say, “Sometimes I bleed from my butt.”
War
The Sounds of War
The fighter jets that invaded Iraq train over my backyard.
Childhood
An Ordinary Age
Raised in a culture veined with the fool’s gold of American Exceptionalism, I thought I had to be exceptional.
At Home with Anica Wong
An elegant dance in a utilitarian kitchen.
Historic Character
My neighborhood’s fight for integration changed America. Now white neighbors are suing a Black pastor over his social justice work.
White Supremacy
Challenging racism is homemaking
Racial Justice at the Kitchen Table