Essays + Narratives

Alex is a reader, teacher, and writer balancing life with autoimmune diseases while carving out spaces for creativity. She lives in Paris, Tennessee, with her husband and two sons. Alex teaches 9th grade English and Creative Writing. She is an Enneagram 3 who loves to put aside her to-do lists to read in her comfy […]

We’ve been stuck at home for a week so far, at the beginning of a pandemic we anticipate will last for a few months. My three daughters are crafting a video game system out of our dying marker collection and a wrinkled pad of finger paint paper they scavenged from somewhere in the basement. They […]

I doubt that anyone who knew me in my early years as a mother would have considered me to be an anxious parent. In fact, I erred more often on the side of being too trusting. I was always the mom who picked up the pacifier off the dirty ground and popped it right back […]

SUMMARY AND GUEST BIO: In the sixth episode of the She is Kindred Podcast, Britt and Emily Lawson discuss navigating neurodiverse parenting and how parenting looks different than we may have imagined.  Our guest today, Emily Lawson, is from Central Iowa, where she was born and raised. Emily and her husband have twins who are […]

I carry pieces of Malaysia with me wherever I go. Literally.  I have specks of dirt from a hiking trail on the island of Penang embedded deep into the skin of my left thigh. When I was in the seventh grade, I attended boarding school there. While trekking out to one of the island’s more […]

My grandmother, who we lovingly referred to as Grandma or Grandma B. during most of my childhood–G.G. once my oldest daughter was born–was the most amazing person I’ve ever known. She survived abuse, single motherhood, an F4 tornado, the police academy, and so much more. Despite every hardship, her heart was full. She loved each […]