melanie

“Stop washing your hands so much,” the dermatologist tells me in February of 2020. I…

“I am alone. I am utterly alone.” I was 11 years old and felt seen…

There’s this word puzzle I work every morning. It has letter tiles like Scrabble but…

She’s a screamer. I’ve tried everything but two-year-old Evie just needs to yell it out.…

When my kids were little, I looked at the bleary-eyed older parents around me with…

I keep fantasizing about faking my own death. After—how many months of lockdown? I’ve lost…

The thing they don’t tell you is how Colorado is flat. As a kid from…

We decided to spend the apocalypse introducing our kids to our favorite TV show of…