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Alma Mater
By Kory Stamper My eldest daughter first made herself known to my husband and me in the usual way—with a 11:00 p.m. run to the store for yet another pregnancy test, because the first three were...
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Family Affairs
From Brain, Child (Fall 2009) By Meagan Francis Four-year-old Charlie has no idea—yet—what transpired between his mom and dad late last year. Stationed overseas while her husband was on active duty in...
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Things
By Kerry Cohen James and I were going to get married at city hall, so I went to the den to tell our combined four kids. Ezra, my ten-year-old autistic son, shook his head. “No married,” he said....
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Wedding China
By Anne Sawan I took down my wedding china this morning. I pulled a stool over to the cabinet where it is hidden safely away on the top shelf, climbed up and carefully took it all down: the smooth,...
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Rock Rock Boom
By Deborah L. Blicher The little blond boy sits too still on the playroom carpet, his feet out in front of him like a doll’s. He stares vaguely at his sister, his cousins, and me. He should be crying....
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The Family I Thought We Would Be
Figuring out the expectations and realities of merging two families. I’ve been married to Brian for fourteen years and 24 days. We were both 2 years out of our first marriages. The joke we told for...
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On Shame and Parenting
I did for them everything I believed a good mother would do for her children and clenched my teeth and prayed it was enough, or right, or that at the very least they would be OK in spite of the depth...
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Till Death Did They Part
By Molly Krause When my dad came back after two decades of divorce, I wondered if my mom had somehow been waiting for him. My dad was a man who was careful with his words. He was bothered by the...
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Notes on a Marriage
By Addie Morfoot It was 10:30 PM on New Year’s Eve when a shot was fired and a car slammed into our front door. This was as close to a party as my husband and I were going to get. In the eleven and a...
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The Loveliness of Ladybugs
By Banks Staples Pecht They call it a loveliness when thousands of ladybugs gather. Humming tunelessly in my kitchen, I unpacked the bag of gardening supplies we had just bought at the nursery. I...
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Quarry
By Molia Dumbleton It took her a second to recognize him, coming at her with a glass of champagne, but just as she was about to open her mouth, he said “I thought that might be you.” Kenny must have...
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A Tale of Borscht and Love
By Maria Danilova On Friday nights, after our daughter has fallen asleep and before we indulge in our guilty pleasure of the week, the latest episode of “The Good Wife,” we begin a familiar ritual. My...
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Join the Great Debate
Did having kids strengthen your marriage or strain it? Join us this Thursday, October 8th at 1:00 EST on Twitter to discuss how having children affects the dynamic of a couple’s relationship. Remember...
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Having Kids Strengthened My Marriage/Having a Kid Strained My Marriage: Two...
Having children together is a big step in any couple’s relationship and one that will invariably affect the dynamic between them. For some people, like Zsofia McMullin, the arrival of a baby can put a...
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Wedding China
By Anne Sawan I took down my wedding china this morning. I pulled a stool over to the cabinet where it is hidden safely away on the top shelf, climbed up and carefully took it all down: the smooth,...
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Soulmate
By Lexi Behrndt I never knew a son could be a soulmate I spent my childhood dreaming of a soulmate. Someone who would be a new oxygen to fill my lungs. I read Wuthering Heights and swooned over the...
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