Barbs Honeycutt

My Mommies and Me

Searching for the soul of America in Mormon mommy blogger Instagram

Alexandra Tanner

MY MOMMIES have been quiet all week, which is not how I like them. Lolo and her littles Sav and Hunty have taken one of their Silkie chickens to the vet for a broken leg. Jess and her husband Colton are still—still!—waiting for Brynnleigh at 40

The Millennial’s Lament

By River Clegg

June 5, 2024

The Millennial awakens. His alarm has not gone off. He wakes up this early now, naturally. He sighs. He hums the first few notes of “Rolling in the Deep,” a song that he believes came out four years ago. He sighs again.

He walks. I am no longer young, he thinks. Being young was my identity—my whole

Reader Essay: MY Jenny

written byMelanie Crist

November 18, 2022

I’ve never wanted kids of my own. Which is precisely why I found myself exiting a Pasadena fertility clinic with a grab bag containing an informational booklet, an application for financing, and a pen that contained small plastic sperm swimming around in its cap.  

I’ll explain. 

Within a

The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han review – how big tech altered the narrative

Stuart Jeffries

Mon 19 Feb 2024 03.00 AEDT

In Charlie Kaufman’s puppet animation Anomalisa, everyone looks and speaks the same. It’s as though a scene in an earlier Kaufman-penned film, Being John Malkovich, in which Malkovich surveys a restaurant from his table and

the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?

We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.

By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point 

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