Dear Amos
Writer Shannon Perri discusses the loss of her father with her newborn son.
I am Love.
What parenting teaches us about how to embody love and strength.
The Revenant
Recalling traumatic birth on the eve of a child’s 3rd birthday.
Thick Skin
How to deal with rejection and criticism, according to your mother.
Son of a Bitch
A feminist mom to her son on what it means to be a “bitch”.
Be a Liz.
How a postpartum doula helped a new mother through suicidal thoughts.
Good Grief
What grief can teach us about the gift of love and what it means to be whole.
Pain in the Neck
How growing pains of the early childhood years are more than just physical.
Guidelines
A feminist mother gives her son guidelines for the “Me too” era.
Base
A mother’s description of true love and the perils of marriage to her young son.
This Land is Your Land
As the great-grandchild of holocaust survivors and the grandchild of Mexican immigrants, this child receives a letter from his mom in the wake of the violence at Charlottesville.