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

You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Internet pandering aside, we know ...

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 do not know to whom my daughter, Sage*, gave the gift of her first laugh. This certainly isn't because she didn’t laugh as a baby — her big brother could get her giggling so hard that she ...

Over the course of 18 completely unremarkable months of my personal life, one of my younger sisters got married, gave birth, finally finished her college degree, and announced that she was ...

In June of 2021, I met with Katie and her family to talk about their experience of Katie coming out as transgender in a conservative Southern state. Katie was 18 years old and grew up in a small ...

I woke up that morning giddy. Something big was happening in our family that day but for once it was not happening to me. I drove us to the urologist’s office, which happened to be in the same ...

Collecting my children’s bagged “personal items” from their school in a socially distanced line while wearing a homemade cloth mask is the most vivid memory I have of the entire coronavirus ...

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 my daughter was a toddler, she had a collection of hand-me-down ’90s toys. There was Papa Smurf, Professor Frink from The Simpsons, and a handful of Legos, but she consistently gravitated ...