These days, I’m learning to ask fewer people for permission.

We need to take a step back from our words sometimes, and focus on the life happening around us.

Here’s the second installment of the Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, featuring JT “Jody” Morse, a multigenre writer-parent who lives and writes with palpable passion.

How exactly do we get our kids to eat the 5 foods Harvard Medical School has linked to better brainpower and all-around health?

We rely on stories often in our family to explain difficult concepts like grief and death—and to give the ineffable a sense of meaning and permanence.

Life is not simple. Neither is love, neither are women, and neither are mothers.

I don’t know about you, but all these flowers in bloom have got me hot and bothered for a literary date night!

Readers, I’m smack-dab giddy to introduce the new Writer-Parent Spotlight interview series, in which writer-parents I admire answer some (hopefully) fun and thought-provoking questions about their lives as writer-parents.

For the first installment, I interviewed not one but two fantastic writer-parents: Joshua Dewain Foster and Georgia Pearle Foster.

I can’t remember a time in adulthood when a topic has fascinated me as much as the Titanic fascinated me as a kid.

Here are several residencies and fellowships that offer writer-parents money to write, time to write, or both.