Our stories for December 2021 are… “The Dead,” by James Joyce (1914) and “The Husband Stitch,” by Carmen Maria Machado (2014) and “Sweat,” by Zora Neale Hurston (1926). We meet online each month the discuss the titles. In December, we’ll get together on the 12th. Reply to this post if you’d like to join, or…
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My Doula Was Four Years Old
Two years ago I am 39 1/2 weeks pregnant and my daughter becomes a four-year-old doula by mistake. On this date in 2019, I wake up around 3:00 in the morning on a Friday. I use the bathroom. No one else is supposed to be awake at this point in the morning, but my daughter…
The Never Enough
My at-home indoor workout the other day was interrupted after 20 minutes when my toddler woke from his 25-minute-long nap (if you can call it that), and I dragged him out of his crib, careful to engage my pelvic floor that has been destroyed thanks to my getting the “You should do pelvic floor physical…
Parenting As Ambition
I have a second grader, a kindergartner and a maniac who is about to turn two. My daughter asked me a couple of days ago if I always wanted to have three kids. I told her I did. She said, “Well congratulations. You got three kids.” I’ve been thinking about this. I heard a woman…