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Art and motherhood: is there really a way to do both?

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I might be a mom by day, but in my heart I am a writer. By Reannon Muth

January 25, 2023 Culture, Parenting Challenges

On pie charts, motherhood, and my uneasy relationship with feminism

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My decision to stop working felt retrograde, a betrayal of my gender. By Jenny Raj

December 15, 2022 Culture

On being a scientist and a mother at the same time

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Nursing my son to sleep, I contemplated Marie Curie. By Nadja Cech

November 17, 2022 Culture

Starting the school year sober. Here’s my story.

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I have spent years juggling my three jobs: teacher, mother, and alcoholic. By Jennifer Dines

October 21, 2021 Parenting Challenges

I’m a single working mom, trying to do it all in a pandemic. It’s really hard.

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I have a full-time job and yet I still feel like I’m waiting for my ex-husband to see me as an equal human. By Katherine Sargent

October 21, 2021 Family, Parenting Challenges

Mothers are rethinking how to return to the workforce post pandemic

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The last 18 months have clarified one thing for me— my job was not worth what I had been giving up to keep it. By Laura Longhine

October 19, 2021 Culture

The dreaded question for women like me, what do you do for a living?

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There’s a certain emotional security that comes with having a glamorous job title. By Chiazo Obiudu

October 18, 2021 Culture

How being a latchkey kid has affected me as a working mom

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I bought the ‘having it all’ narrative like so many other women of my generation. But I didn’t read the fine print. By Virginia Fundora

June 16, 2021 Parenting Challenges

All working moms don’t have to be like RBG

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RBG worked so hard not only to open doors for other women, but so that other women wouldn’t have to work just like her. By Jenny Leon

October 7, 2020 Culture

Dads are taking on the burdens of remote learning too

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Last spring, when we finally gave up the dream of returning to school, I held onto September as my North Star. By Steven Newmark

August 21, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

What have you learned about yourself during the pandemic?

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Parenting, relationships, work-life balance. Your pandemic self-growth in 100 words or less.

July 15, 2020 Culture

Letting go of the emotional labor of cooking right now

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It’s been a long, slow road to finding a balance between supporting others and supporting myself. By Yvonne Spence

July 8, 2020 Culture, Family

This Mother’s Day, get the gift of more time

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Both you and your partner have only 24 hours in a day and each of those hours holds equal value. By Eve Rodksy

May 9, 2020 Books, Culture

Motherwell talks to best-selling author Eve Rodsky

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Eve Rodsky’s book Fair Play presents a hands-on, systematic solution to how to share the division of labor at home.

March 15, 2020 Books, Culture

Parenting by the clock, but learning how to live in the moment

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Now if something takes too long, it means we’re late for something else. By Fiona Leary Boucher

February 4, 2020 Culture

Mothers are experts at the art of reinvention

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“No offense Mom,” my oldest said to me a few years ago. “But you could have been so much more.” By Laura Pochintesta

July 9, 2019 Family

How my baby restores me at the end of the work day

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I arrive at the office. I mime professional. Am I a professional? For months my identity was pure and unquestioned: mother of an infant. By Janelle Ward

May 10, 2019 Culture, Family

How to reconcile the empty nest me with the motherhood me

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So many parents speak of this transition period with promise and enthusiasm. But I loved nothing more than my kids walking through the door every day at 2:35pm. By Randi Olin

March 20, 2019 Family

On being a mother who still doesn’t know who she is

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I am a woman who sometimes needs a glass of wine or two in the evening, because even though her boys are no longer babies, five to six o’clock is still the witching hour. By Fiona Leary Boucher

March 7, 2019 Culture

How Halloween helped one mother rediscover her identity

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In New York City’s rush hour, a tush encased in orange tulle attracts less attention than you’d expect. By Jaime Levy Pessin

October 31, 2018 Culture

The struggle to find work-life balance in academia

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Whether to have a baby before tenure is still one of the most pressing questions for female academics. By Sarah Rivett

September 25, 2018 Culture

Finding my creative work-life balance in a taco

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For me the taco had become an easy vector of choice, creativity, freedom, and therefore power. By Samantha Shanley

July 18, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why Serena Williams matters, now more than ever

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Serena has arguably done as much for working moms in the past year as she’s done for tennis in the past decade. By Mary Pflum Peterson

July 12, 2018 Culture

What happens when your kid gets kicked out of preschool

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You speed through the five stages of grief or however many there are because you’re trying to wrap up a project at work and you don’t have time for this crap. By A.S. Callaghan

April 24, 2018 Parenting Challenges

Why happiness as a parent is always going to be qualified

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Here I am at the sink again. Here I am signing the kids up for soccer again. Here I am preparing for the holidays again. Wash, rinse, repeat. By Ilyse Dobrow DiMarco

April 4, 2018 Culture, Parenting Challenges

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