From Twilight to Tolstoy, I used to read pretty much anything. Now I couldn't finish an article, let alone a novel.

Once I identified as disabled, I started to ask the right questions: What do I need? What is available? What can I change?

They may play well in some arenas, but when it comes to protecting kids from sexual abuse, they can backfire — badly. As an emergency physician who works in a children’s hospital, I provide medical ...

Twelve years ago when my daughter was born, my parents were there in the hospital room with me to welcome her. My mother cut the cord and my father announced, “It’s a girl!” The three of us ...

Once, in town to help me take care of our 6-month-old while her son was traveling, my mother-in-law and I watched a movie about a woman whose dad is dying. Nodding toward the baby asleep on my ...

You know those TikTok “Clean With Me” videos where some woman does a voiceover that’s like, “My anxiety has been really bad lately and that’s why there’s 8,000 loads of laundry on my ...

A few months ago, I was enjoying an adult beverage with my newish friend Julia when she mentioned that every Monday she goes grocery shopping at the Berkeley Bowl, a beloved East Bay institution ...

"We see you, cycle-breakers." I encounter this phrase regularly on TikTok and Instagram and I am, without a doubt, the target audience. Like so much modern-day online parenting content, at its ...

“I knew it would be bad, I just didn’t know it would all happen so fast,” Hannah Baker*, a 32-year-old mother of one in the southeastern United States, tells me. “I had already made up my ...