Eirene HendersonThe bloody screen-time battleWhy I continue to wage war with my kids over how much screen-time they haveSep 17, 2019Sep 17, 2019
Eirene HendersonIf you theoretically love reading but don’t actually readTen books for the short of time, emotional energy, and patience.Sep 16, 2019Sep 16, 2019
Eirene HendersonFive ways to have a magazine worthy home when you’re broke as an effing jokeInsta interiors make me suicidal. Thriving house plants, nauseating amounts of natural light, a second mortgage’s worth of art and textiles…Sep 15, 2019Sep 15, 2019
Eirene HendersonMadonna and Child“He’s such a good baby,” Mother Mary said, Turning her adoring profile For the umpteenth time Upon the corpulent mini-man Lolling in the…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019
Eirene HendersonDon’t MessI remember the meek Accommodating Splenda sweetness Of a cautious pagan Deftly skirting Fiery conniption Boiling molten wrath The…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019
Eirene HendersonBreastsOnce firm and fuzzy and unbruised Like underripe peaches The prow of a westbound merchant ship All glory and optimism and impertinence…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019
Eirene HendersonEssenceI am We are I see you across the cosmos Catch the essence of your eye Exchange the essence of a smile The essence of a spit shake The oven…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019
Eirene HendersonMisunderstanding EmilyI misunderstood. I misunderstood Emily. We just passed for civil or forcibly friendly. She’s “mad” and I’m “bad”— but all relatively. (I…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019
Eirene HendersonWhat Heart Eyes HideOnce, If you believed that your clothes, or the contents of your dinner plate were worthy of public interest then your address was…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019
Eirene HendersonMother F!#$*ing EarthAncient flesh, rough, wrinkled, stripped and stretched, scarred and sagging from sacrifice after sacrifice. Her deltas sucked dry, her…Sep 14, 2019Sep 14, 2019