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  • Plant a tree, have a child, write a book? Not so fast!
    Plant a tree, have a child, write a book? Not so fast!
    September 18, 2022

    Plant a tree, have a child, write a book? Not so fast!

    “Plant a tree, have a child, write a book.” Whether it was Cuban poet and freedom fighter José Martí or some other worthy who first uttered this maxim is irrelevant. What matters is its message: ...

  • Book Therapy: Good Mom on Paper
    Book Therapy: Good Mom on Paper
    April 29, 2022

    Book Therapy: Good Mom on Paper

    “Children require their parents to search for small moments of peace or grace or dignity. Maybe we can treat creativity the same way: creating the one true thing within a project that is otherwise just ...

  • Small baby sleeping next to an open laptop / Photo by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
    Small baby sleeping next to an open laptop / Photo by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
    November 01, 2021

    'Write when the baby sleeps' and other impossible writing rules

    Years ago, long before I had any kids, I read that Alice Munro wrote when her baby napped, so when I was pregnant with my first kid, I told myself I’d do the same. It was 2015, six years before my first ...

  • Book Therapy: Jessica Westhead’s Worry
    Book Therapy: Jessica Westhead’s Worry
    November 07, 2019

    Book Therapy: Jessica Westhead’s Worry

     "Her brain and her body were still so wobbly then. Nothing about her was behaving the way it was supposed to. The birth had been a traumatic one, and she thought she would never heal.” - Jessica Westhead, ...

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