I’m halfway through Bonk, and it’s also excellent. You can tell she really goes deep into her research (no pun intended) and loves to show what she’s found out.

YES. One of the best books about it. Also, “Stiff”, by Mary Roach. Very educational and entertaining.

Just like Julie Gristlewhite and Carly on Burning Love.

This might be the best concert review sentence ever: “The experience was like a combination of going to church and being abducted by aliens, but both in the best ways.” lol Damn, that’s some serious magic. Glad you enjoyed it so much, I love concerts that transport the audience so much. Some of the best concerts…

I hovered when Mini schwa was really little, but around the age of 4, I just let her do her thing while I relax on a bench. I’ve stopped caring about being judged by other moms. They probably all judge anyway, since we live in an upper-middle class city and I don’t care if my kid gets on the school bus with a milk…

My mom died a year ago of suicide, and I was nine months pregnant when it happened so I couldn’t go to the funeral and never saw her body or anything. I have very similar dreams as you, where she’s calling me from unknown numbers and refuses to tell me where she is, and lots of dreams where she’s angry with me or…

I agree.

my mom’s house is so epically NOT kid-proofed that we taught her grandkids the “Gabby’s House” song, with lyrics like “we’re gonna play with bags of glass, bags of glass, bags of glass. we might even eat a bag of glass, to Gabby’s house WE GOooooooo”

My mother died of cancer as well. Twenty years later I still occasionally have those dreams, that she’s still alive and just hiding from me.

I never knew other people had this dream! My beloved great-aunt died when I was eleven and since then I’ve had dreams that she actually faked her death because she didn’t want to be part of our family anymore. And in some versions, my parents knew and just told me she was dead so that my feelings wouldn’t be hurt. …

Actually, yes. My dreams about my mother’s death would be that she had also faked her death (she died from cirrhosis of the liver and pneumonia). I would start out angry at her, but she was SO HAPPY in the dreams and wanted to let me know she was ok and to not be sad. Actually in one dream she told me she had run off…

My mom died of cancer when I was 12 (19 years ago) and I had the recurring fake-her-death dream up until a few years ago. Not sure why I don’t have it anymore.

Yes. In the 11 years since my mom passed, I’ve had so many dreams where she’s alive. But we still thought she was dead all those years so it’s like she was just pretending. And then we’d fight about something :-( it’s very confusing

This just happened, on the 1st of this month.

HUBBIDADUBBIDAWHAAA???

First of all, I’m so sorry you lost your dad. Those those attempts to reconcile or rationalize it stick around for a long, long time. Case in point: My father died of cancer twenty years ago (this January), and I’ve been having the exact dream you describe since weeks after his death. His death…

YES!!!! I cried my way through the last episode from the second I saw the title and realized it was the end.

I cannot even fathom how someone could be so obtuse unless they literally live in a bubble and interact with no other humans ever. As a woman who is currently pregnant, it is nearly impossible to avoid other women’s birth stories...And let me tell you, most of them do not begin with 15 lbs, peak with an easy natural…

IT’S ALL PIPES!!!!!

“[Some] mothers choose to go back to their jobs quickly simply because they don’t understand how disruptive that is to the well-being of their babies. So many babies in our culture are not being cared for in the way God designed, and we as a nation are paying the price.”