A Love Letter to All the Moms in My Life
A love Letter to all the Moms in my life I have a lot of moms in my life that I wish well today. To the moms right now who are juggling work inside and outside the house, I wish you some solitude, good food…
Parenting
Quarantining with kids
I imagine many of you are heading into Monday with a sense of dread. Social distancing’s “flatten the curve” imperative needs to be followed by all of us, in order to avoid the tragedy that the graph above projects. We are doing our part and…
Holi Hai!
Holi Hai! If any day now gives me serious nostalgia for Bombay, it’s Holi–the onset of Spring, meant to symbolize rebirth, new beginnings, and, literally, the harvest. D’s first time visiting Bombay happened to coincide with Holi one year and he got a small taste…
Pink Pangea: The Women’s Writing Retreat That Saved My Life
By last October, I was barely holding it together. I was showing up a day early or an afternoon late for birthday parties, mistaking lotion for shampoo, severely underestimating how long I had to get to airports before flights for work… the works. I knew…
Meatloaf
Yeah, me too. And others too! Four people told me this past week that they’re expecting first or second children and the first of my friends to have their second child delivered last week. Welcome to the world, IMH! While you’re counting back nine months…
Are All New Mothers Endowed Equally?
(this piece was originally published on www.momsrising.org, as a contribution to “Moms Get Real About Race in America: A MomsRising.org Blog Carnival in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington.”) There could be a lot of reasons I see everything through a race lens. I…
Expect Better
We should all Expect Better, and then ask some more questions Yes, I know about Emily Oster’s new book released today that questions conventional pregnancy wisdom. Yes, I think her work is quality and that a social scientist’s interpretation of the data around pregnancy restrictions…
Child care
Considering child care Alissa Quart has a piece in The New York Times today that looks at the financial burden, and often impossibility, of child care on American families. Given that one of my chapters tackles exactly this topic, it piqued my interest. Why would a book…
Fingerpaints
Homemade fingerpaints When it’s uncomfortably hot outside, I try to find indoor activities for Desmond. Preferably activities on the less-destructive end of the spectrum, for the good of our sweet little cherub, but also our apartment’s security deposit. Fingerpainting seems like it would violate…