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Stalling
I bought the electronic pregnancy test at Walmart. I was three days late and I had to pee so I ran into the bathroom with my cart, almost running over an elderly blue-haired lady on her walker. I have...
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Of Firsts and Donuts: Comics
I started drawing comics as a child, and wrote a daily comic strip for my college newspaper. I came back to comics after medical school as I looked for a way to navigate the landscape of medicine and...
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You Don’t Seem Like The Mother Type
Connie, I don’t doubt that you can do anything you set your mind to. Nia’s words on yesterday’s group text flashed in my mind. Nia, a fellow writer, bonded by a week spent in a fiction workshop this...
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In My Defense
Among the many things I find difficult to be gracious about is the fact that my parenting choices are subject to unsolicited interpretations from everyone and anyone, it seems, starting with my mother...
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It’s All Hard Work
“I’m going to see my students today,” my toddler says as he tosses random toys—a car, a frog, a ball—into a bag then hoists it over his shoulder. “I’m going now, okay?” “Have a good class!” I call...
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Spilt Milk in the ER
Four hours into my shift, my breasts had moved passed the sensation of fullness and into the realm of engorgement, a sense of urgency building. I glanced up at the clock; the trauma patient was...
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Who’s Been Caring for the Kids of Essential Workers? Loira Limbal On Her...
Ever just stopped by a supermarket after 8pm, or picked up bread at a bakery in the morning that was baked overnight? Ever had a nurse at the night ER who, by their bedside manner, clearly has their...
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“Experts” Getting Nervous as Parents of the Future Threaten to Strike
Our society and economy routinely exploits the labor of parenting, mostly done by women, by making it unpaid, low-status, and invisible. It’s not framed as labor, it’s framed as “love,” the “natural...
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Nine to Five: An Illustrated Day in the Life of a Mom who Does it All
first published on McSweeney’s, reprinted with permission The post Nine to Five: An Illustrated Day in the Life of a Mom who Does it All appeared first on Mutha Magazine.
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