Essays + Narratives

SUMMARY AND GUEST BIO: In episode 12 of the She Is Kindred podcast, Britt and Kailyn Rhinehart talk about when motherhood isn’t all you expected it to be. They chat about what it says about moms when we feel like we are struggling to connect with our baby in the ways we so deeply want […]

A hot wheels car, a transformer, and a dinosaur stand propped on a turquoise, wooden stool—all three staring at the toilet. My two boys are about to go to their grandparents’ house for the weekend, and I’m doing a once-over to avoid leaving anything of importance to them. Either this is Toy Story in real […]

What do we know of motherhood when we don’t even know how it shaped our own mothers, changed their peripheral views, altered their hips and dreams and ovarian nightmares? We know them only as our mamas, not the women who existed before. “Oh your mother, that one,” people might say, as if that other woman […]

He won’t fit in this little bike seat much longer. The straps are getting tight, and his legs already reach the footrests. By reach, I mean that I have to finagle his straightened legs past my handlebars in just a way to get them to fit but also not scrape his shins.  The neon green […]

Today’s May episode continues Motherhood month. We want to start here and hold space for you – wherever you are on this road. We want to honor you. We see and acknowledge your longing to become a mom and the complications you may be faced with along the way. We know the emotions the word […]

As I turn the corner of our steps, the sunflower seed carpet lush beneath my feet, I see the clear strips of money stuck to our walls first. Some bills lay crumpled on the floor, folded in on themselves in an adhesive mess. Others are clean lines on the wall, only identifiable by the sheen […]