The fine for keeping your kid home from kindergarten in New York State is $10. I know this because I looked it up. To be completely honest, $10, or even the worst-case scenario of 10 days of jail time, seems like a reasonable trade to keep my first baby a…

I wonder about her eyebrows. I wonder if they looked like mine, disheveled and uneven. I wonder if one of them would have grown upward at the edge, imperfectly perfect and matching to me. Or if they would have been thick like her father’s, dark as night and fighting so…

When the Boogeyman enters your house, he doesn’t ring the doorbell. He sneaks in through the thick darkness of night when you’re peacefully sleeping and basking in innocent naivety. When the Boogeyman enters your house, you don’t believe he could really be there. You’ve taken the precautions, the measures to…

Sometimes I daydream about disappearing. Not in a harmful way. Just a “The Leftovers”-esque fade to air particles type of way. It’s something I’ve been daydreaming about since I was a kid and used to tell no one but my journal. I would “run away” to my parents’ side porch…

It’s not often I find myself at a loss for words. They have a tendency to spew from my mouth sometimes before I’ve fully thought them out and flow from my fingertips faster than my autocorrect can catch. …

When my daughter was born in 2016, I created an email account for her. I remember seeing the idea on Pinterest and thinking it would be great to hand her over the password to the account when she turned 18 only for her to log in and find a wealth…

They said it would be an adjustment for you, but they didn’t say I’d break your heart over and over again every single day. Sure, it’s temporary. Your requests, at times, unreasonable. But no one’s ever told you “no” or “give me a second” or “I can’t right now” as…

Sometimes I feel like an old person trapped in a young person’s body. Alternatively, there are times when I’m driving with the windows down listening to Cardi B at full volume through my neighborhood that I feel like a young person trapped in a going-grey, wrinkly-under-eyed person’s body. Like every…

A vivid memory has been haunting me lately day and night. The memory is from not so long ago, about a year-and-a-half. It was a sunny, blue-sky day and I brought my toddler to the playground alone. …