Stay-at-home writer-mama Laura Ojeda Melchor holds a MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has completed 2.5 years of a lifelong Parenthood Residency. (Because, you know, that's a thing.) She lives in Alaska with her husband, toddler, and puppy, and spends her days reading (to herself and to her son), listening to music, and going for walks in her delightfully foresty neighborhood.
I live on stolen, originally Indigenous land in Alaska. Because of this, it's important to me that I seek out Indigenous voices, like Alaska Native poets.
It's all too easy to dismiss the horrors of an event when it's become an element of casual conversation, but stop and consider the victims of Jonestown.
Does the worrying new screen time study published in JAMA have you fretting about how you'll ever get any work done ever again? Or, you know, any reading?
If you've never thought about your own burial, why not start now? Caitlin Doughty convinced me to pick out my own casket. Maybe she can convince you too.
Are you raising a bilingual child? Do you need bilingual board books to read them that they can't ruin? Here are 7 fantastic Spanish-English board books!
One emetophobe writes a love letter to books that have carried her through a lifetime of suffering from a little-talked-about mental illness.
So many American children grew up with Laura Ingalls Wilder. Including me. But her books are racist, so should we really be reading them to our kids?