The Mother Lode
Cindy DiTiberio, Melinda Wenner Moyer, Lane Anderson, Catherine Baab, Tracy Clark-Flory, Savala Nolan, Gemma Hartley, Kate Washington, Ruth Whippman, avalon, Corinne LowEssays & interviews on motherhood, marriage, and divorce
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What Are Men For? Volume 3
a conversation with Kate Washington, author of Midstream
Kate Washington is the author of Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America and a new memoir Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims. This most recent book is both a story of mid-...
Is Marriage a Temporary Balm for Our Fear About the Future?
Since starting a relationship at the end of February, and falling truly, madly, deeply in love, I’ve been faced with an uncomfortable realization.
Maybe marriage is something we embark upon because we are afraid of acknowledging all things...
The Marriage Diaries: Roommate Edition
Is marriage worth it when the relationship downgrades from romance into roommate status? And what about when you seem to have lost all respect for each other?
The New York Times recently published an article that says, not so much: “Older...
The Financial Risks of Hetero Marriage
of Matriarchy Report reached out to me in the wake of all the controversy over Belle Burden’s divorce memoir, Strangers. It is a book about divorce, marriage, and how little value men place on the caretaking that their wives do. Here is wha...
When Holy Becomes Harmful
“We don’t often share about our marriage even with our best friends which is why so many people are surprised when people get divorced because you hold things back so fiercely. It is that belief that it is the most holy union, the two of yo...
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Writer of The Mother Lode and a New York Times bestselling collaborator and editor who has worked in publishing for over twenty years. Her writing has appeared in The Lily, Yahoo, Scary Mommy, Literary Mama, Mutha Magazine, and more.
Award-winning science journalist, regular contributor to The New York Times, author of HELLO, CRUEL WORLD! and HOW TO RAISE KIDS WHO AREN’T ASSHOLES.
Writer, journalist, prof. Lover of pastries, ranter of rants. Feral woman and girl mom.
Writer, journalist: Slate, Lit Hub, WSJ, CNBC, NBC. Author of Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru.
Tracy Clark-Flory is the author of the memoir MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER. Also: WANT ME. She is a journalist, essayist, and co-hosts the podcast Dire Straights. Her weekly newsletter, TCF Emails, covers sex, pop culture, and feminism.
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Speaker, writing coach, and author of Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Author of Midstream: A Life Remade in 50 Swims and Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America. Connect with Kate at kawashington.com
Author and journalist. Former BBC documentary maker. Words in New York Times, Guardian etc. Author of BoyMom, Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (Harmony/ Penguin 2024) and America the Anxious (St Martins 2016)
after 24 years of marriage, I began the messy process of untangling myself from a role I'd mistaken for my identity. Writing about relationships, midlife, sovereignty, and what happens when we stop abandoning ourselves in order to belong.
Economist at Wharton. Author, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours.
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