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Love in Their Own Ways: A Review of THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Christina Vo

Christina Vo’s new memoir, THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, explores how that path towards healing and self-love is never direct. 

Who is a Mother-Writer Without Guilt & Rage?

Without realizing it, my brain has done a good job of blocking out my mom rage. These moments sweep me and other moms into something unrecognizable. I’m ashamed of the times I’ve let my own desires for creative fulfillment cloud what’s happening before me in real time, especially as it relates to my kids. But forgive me for saying this: I’m fighting for me. My therapist says she loves how I have a strong sense of self, and that I strive for it.

How to Be a Mutha Effing Writer in 3 Easy Steps

How do they do it? I reached out to a few mother-writers who I admire – published authors who are doing the difficult yet rewarding job of raising children.

Mothers Unearthed: the Aster(ix) Climate Issue

We are thrilled to share our September 2022 issue, Mothers Unearthed, co-Edited by Emily Raboteau…

Concerning the Sea Stars

MONDAY 3:27 PM MONDAY 4:13 PM MONDAY 4:20 PM MONDAY 5:01 PM ~ TUESDAY 3:18…

Seasonal Affective Disorder

There’s a certain smell I associate with fall, a crispness that carries melancholy. These fleeting…

Basil

On those afternoons when I feel most fraught, broke as a joke, I breathe with the trees.  Yes,…

Unconscious

“I gift you two worlds, this dance, this arrival to yourself regardless of the thousand…

Prime Coats

In 2006, I sat with the physician in my pickup truck in the Baton Rouge…

Dreaming a Sacred Garden

We moved into the first floor apartment on Palmetto Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn in the…