Demographic Collapse is a Local Issue: The Response is Personal
A strange new coalition of vaguely conservative political actors is taking shape. One of the common threads is concern over declining birth […]
Living the examined life
Living the examined life
What it means to be a mother and live an examined life
A strange new coalition of vaguely conservative political actors is taking shape. One of the common threads is concern over declining birth […]
My friend’s hairdresser rereads classics covered in high school English classes each decade of her life. Because we live in a culture […]
Claims made in personal improvement advice seem improbable to impossible to one muddling through an ordinary day. Standing in soggy shoes after […]
Here, we begin a series on “your most annoying child.” Everyone has one! Just as we should not play favorites, it’s bad […]
Years ago, I wrote about the question “Why Does My Child Scream Uncontrollably?” This question followed a disorienting interaction I had with […]
Last month I wrote for The Federalist about an encouraging sign in marketing: celebrating the joys of being a woman! It was […]
I’ve written before about the crushing weight of trauma people seem to have in response to events and experiences that are, objectively, […]
Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 film “Wild Strawberries” (“Smultronstället” in Swedish) is a portrait of a man whose mother was cold. The protagonist, a […]
There’s a cultural misperception that spontaneity and impulse are the fertile ground of artistic expression. Undeniably, there is a long and storied […]
There are certain writers whose work, no matter the topic, I will read because their perspective is perennially interesting. Such is the […]