Newsletters

I finished my miscarriage on a toilet

We don't talk about what happens in women's bodies or bathrooms.

20 Sep

Built Environment

A Concise Chronicle of a Woman Who Cried at Home

What has crying in the home looked like over the centuries?

07 Sep

Cancer

My Friend Was Diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer

I want you to know what it is like to sit in her home.

20 Aug

Motherhood

America Doesn’t Care About Mothers

I finally understand that help is not coming

19 Aug

Motherhood

My motherhood is a dirty fridge

Wait, let me start over. I mean my motherhood is like a dirty fridge. Hear me out.

12 Aug

I started my 30-day HOME Yoga journey 92 days ago.

I wasn’t very interested in the transcendental. I just wanted to feel like reality was a place worth being.

07 Aug

Childhood

Live with Regis and Kathie Lee!

I was a kid with an anxiety disorder. Regis Philbin was my (unlikely) hero

01 Aug

Platforms

Journalism Comes For Teenage Trauma and Triumph on TikTok

Internet culture has a kid consent problem

30 Jul

City Park, Denver

Today is the third day of protests in Denver.

30 May

What a Zoom Funeral Taught Me About Death

As my daughters and I stared at a livestream of an open casket, I realized death is always remote

17 Apr

Platforms

The Great Influencer Exodus

Prominent Instagram influencers are getting dragged for fleeing New York, showing their millions of followers what not to do during a pandemic

30 Mar

Cancer

There Is No Paycheck for Your Life’s Work

A pandemic reminds us that work-life balance was always out of reach

23 Mar

Childhood

My High School Was Full of Boys Like Alex Jones

On fact, fiction, and the origin stories we claim as our own

19 Mar

Home

Making a House a Home

I’ve lived in this home since you were born. Well. Not this house. I’ve lived in five houses since you were born. But each house was this home, the only world I could claim.

16 Mar

Childcare

Motherhood in America Is a Multilevel Marketing Scheme

Moms can’t hold this pyramid up much longer

06 Jan

A Mother of Three on the Picket Lines in Oakland

I wasn’t raised to rally but I also wasn’t raised to retreat.

22 Feb

Suffer the Little Children

Mothers have always crossed boundaries to save their kids

14 Jul