Margaret Kennedy’s “The Feast”: A Perfect Beach Read?
Reading on the beach is a careful art, made all the more perilous when you have children to keep track of. Books […]
Can Watching YouTube Videos Make Your House Cleaner?
There are people who don’t care about little messes and clutter. And there are those of us who long continually for clean […]
Childless, Childfree, and Being Around Children
As reactionary “trad-isms” and “anti-feminisms” proliferate there are more calls for “every woman to have a child.” Really! This is uttered by […]
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 […]
Julie Phillips’ “The Baby on the Fire Escape”: Incomplete Thoughts on Motherhood and Art
If you talk to enough women who are fascinated by the interplay between motherhood and creative endeavors, you will get the recommendation […]
What Stops Mothers from Creating? Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Womanhood as an Integrated Whole
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh and an aviator in her own right, thought she should have written more. […]
How to Raise Successful Children and the Myth of a “Good Start”
“…she explained that there was no tansy in the neighborhood with such snap to it as some that grew about the schoolhouse […]
Like It or Not, the Hilaria Baldwin Workouts Work
Assailed by a tragic death and legal woes, Hilaria Baldwin is back in the news. The tragedy and legal trouble pertain to […]