Imagine If You Can: Motherhood Without Instagram
There’s a foolproof way as a woman to ensure that you get rest when it is required for physical healing. There’s a […]
Unintended Profundity: Paris Hilton on Birth, Death, and What We Fear Most
Well, folks, she’s done it again. An oracle of our age, a woman whose uttered wisdom exceeds the limitations of her public […]
Is it “puttering” that makes a house a home?
Many a homemaker has despaired of ever living in a place of beauty. There is always something to be cleaned, something to […]
Motherhood “In the Trenches”: Reassessing the Language of War
When a mother describes the daily care of babies and toddlers there’s an expression used to capture the experience: she might say […]
Sentimentalizing Mothers and Mothers Who Are Not Overly Sentimental
Used book sales are a treasure trove of cast-off volumes, unwanted and unlooked for by most. Gorgeous old tomes sell for a […]
Motherhood, Individuality, and a Life in Full Color
The demands of raising children can lead to a disturbing erasure of visible personality. Exhibit A: an annual trip. The children’s various […]
Women in Combat: So Equal It Hurts
The presupposition of much of our public discourse is that radical and absolute equality between the sexes is not only possible but, […]
A Lively Conversation on the Catholic Current
Earlier this month, I had the great pleasure of conversing of an hour with the sharp-as-a-tack Fr. McTeigue of the Society of […]
When Raising Kids, Sometimes Less Really is More
Writing at the Federalist recently, I offered some thoughts on a study from earlier this year on the rise of mental disorders […]
The Wrath of a Housewife Spurned
The stay-at-home mother is considered maximally flexible. What could she possibly have going on? This total flexibility is quickly filled up with […]