After reading a NY Times article about placenta accreta, I’m sharing my story to hopefully raise more awareness of this dangerous condition that impacts 1 in 272 pregnancies.

These days, I’m asking fewer people for permission.

We need to take a step back from our words sometimes and focus on the life happening around us.

This writer-parent spotlight features JT “Jody” Morse, a multigenre writer-parent who lives and writes with palpable passion.

How exactly do we get our kids to eat the 5 foods Harvard Medical School has linked to better brainpower and all-around health?

Stories can help explain difficult concepts like grief and death—and give the ineffable a sense of meaning and permanence.

Life is not simple. Neither is love, neither are women, and neither are mothers.

I don’t know about you, but all these flowers in bloom have got me hot and bothered for a literary date night!

For the first installment of the Writer-Parent Spotlight Series, meet fantastic writer-parents Joshua Dewain Foster and Georgia Pearle Foster.

I can’t remember a time in adulthood when a topic fascinated me as much as the Titanic fascinated me as a kid.

A list of fellowships and residencies that offer writer-parents money to write, time to write, or both.

Hold onto your panties, writer-parents. Because I’ve been swimming in a world of excrement lately and thinking a lot about how it relates to writing.

I’m quite American, but like many Americans, when my Irish ancestors escaped the famine and sailed across the Atlantic, they brought a love for their country that reverberates in my DNA.

Motherhood and sexuality inform each other, yet can feel at odds in a world that values glittery youth, tight skin, and women who don’t wear shirts covered in spit up.

Here’s how we as writer-parents can help the writers, artists, and families of Ukraine, now and moving forward.

To write well we must have time, energy, and the ability to focus—all of which are hard to come by in general, especially as a parent, and most especially as a parent post-2020.

Turns out writing while parenting isn’t easy. Hell, turns out parenting itself isn’t easy.