So when I imagined having kids, it was always plural. If I was lucky enough to have one child, I knew I wanted to try to have ...

You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Cycle-breaking is the idea that we ...

I peered out in the dark, the barely begun Eaton fire still miles away from our house: “If our house burned down, what would you miss the most?” “Kira. All of Altadena would have to burn ...

At first, I didn't know how to be a sexual person and a parent. Which was fair, because nothing in life prepared me for that.

When Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9, hospitals were hunkered down statewide. Even those on the East Coast ...

“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 ...

Before Akira arrived, like any pregnant woman having their first child, I had so many preconceived ideas about what motherhood would be like and what my child would be like. I would be a mother ...

Whatever parenting Kool-Aid we’re drinking is laced with our own self-destruction.

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 ...