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Join MUTHA Magazine and Pen Parentis for this BKBF Bookend Event featuring Emily Flake, Emi Nietfeld, and Cat Willett!

We are exhausted and sad, yet somehow supposed to be fiercely independent

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<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The first night I held my son to sleep in the red papasan chair was also th...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>When I was in my twenties, I got briefly lost in a rainforest in Borneo. My...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I see them slipping away, my hands outstretched, fingers grasping for them,...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>When Hannah Grieco responded to a call for pitches I put out for my an...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“Hey, come here, I have to tell you something,” I say to my husband, mo...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>To read an essay by Anna Nordberg about the real-life loss that inspire...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>To read an interview with Anna Nordberg about her new novel, </em><a hr...

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<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Scrub the black mold out of the cabinets and closets, muttering first about...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>When Hannah Grieco responded to a call for pitches I put out for my an...

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<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>At his class picnic, five days before the end of elementary school, a socce...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>When your mother asks, “Who are you?” as you enter the hospital room it...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I was born on the Fourth of July. A day of parades and lawn chairs, and kid...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I am 18, <br>and I am no longer a glittery<br>flitting<br>maiden,<br>boots ...

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<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It was an earring, but not just any earring. It was a silver heart inside a...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>My kid gets in the car after baseball practice with a story to tell us. He�...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The oak doors open and a line of toddling bodies follow the nursery staff i...

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<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>He leaned forward to hand me the check, and I leaned back instinctively. I ...

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Over ten years ago, when our kids were thirteen and ten, our family vacatio...

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