May 7, 2022Mothers & SecretsWhen I was growing up in Colorado, I would have never associated the word “secretive” with my Croatian mom. I thought of it more like “withholding.” As a child, I sensed her unspoken history, fleeting and faintly drawn in my mind. Still where there are family secrets, cracks appear. …Mothers10 min readMothers10 min read
Published inHuman Parts·Dec 22, 2021Member-onlyInvisible: The Fault Lines of MotherhoodWe take a few steps from our beds to remote teaching and remote learning, to four desks in three rooms. In our Queens, New York City apartment, we endure lock down, our entry into the pandemic. I hear eight-year old giggling and then I tell him to get off YouTube…Motherhood8 min readMotherhood8 min read