Do you think about divorce?
Strangers by Belle Burden and the WAY stranger stories I can tell you from my years as a divorce lawyer
The Return, by Tessa Carranza-Hawthorn
The Return is a column about finding a way to return to the things we love, including ourselves. Weekly essays on love, friendship and culture.
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Will you be proud of you when you die?
life in a brief but telling timeline
Have you ever felt rejected by your kid?
Spoiler: it’s not about you.
#4: The Monthly Return (March 2026)
A transcendent Bon Iver recording, a devastating film, Greek island daydreams, an essay on new parenthood, and two poems about love.
The hybrid-mom and the jobby
definitions to live by
Write what you don’t know
And let it teach you about yourself
Things that almost last
On killing your darlings
Let yourself be loved
Wounds, masks and uncurling the fist of hyper-indepedence
#3: The Monthly Return (Feb, 2026)
Nostalgia, consciousness, comedy, parenting, and creative discipline.
You might not be sad – you might be grieving
How to tell when your sadness is demanding that you change