It was October and I was thirteen. On the bright car ride home from school, my dad told me my older brother Will had died....
Archive for tag: motherhood
Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute
The importance of protecting the inner life against the stresses and assaults of ordinary life seems to be on everyone’s minds lately. Vox Populi published...
The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing
My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a letter. Not in a diary....
Report from the Field: To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape
The first real poet I got to know was my teacher for two weeks at the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference, the summer I turned 18....
Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry
Things we know: Lorrie Moore is a writer of humorous fiction, and many would call her prolific and successful. Lorrie Moore is also mother to...
Report from the Field: Encounters with Misogynists or, the Lap Dances I Never Received
This isn’t a lesbian club, the bald-headed bouncer spat before tossing us onto the icy Montreal street. The details before and after are hazy. I...
Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It
I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase in reference to myself: I don’t know how she does it. Perhaps it was when...
Moms on the Market
Dear Tenured Mom, I’m currently on the academic job market and pregnant. While the pregnancy itself is exciting and great news in my personal life,...