Pregnancy No. 1
Gestation: 6 weeks, 1 day
I was a girl trying to be a woman in a man’s world, a fledgling New York City architect. With a work ethic inherited from immigrant parents who fled communist Poland with ...
Motherhood: A Resurrection by Magda Stoenescu
LAR Online, Nonfiction
On the way home from my Saturday Alanon meeting, I realize it’s my father’s sobriety anniversary. Fifty years. Should I call him? He’s on a ranch somewhere south of Austin with eight of his college buddies, and I ...
Home Team by Christie Tate
LAR Online, Nonfiction
In order to get ready to sleep, I used to have to cross my pinky toe over my other toe, on each side, rubbing my foot against the shin of the other leg. This action told my body I was folded up and ready for sleep, as ...
Accident Prone by Alison Powell
LAR Online, Nonfiction
My weary body is cradled in old cotton sheets in a home that rests on Californian land, where my maternal grandparents settled because, to them, New York was inhospitable in climate and temperament. Long ago, my mother ...
The Legends of Los Angeles by Taylor Harrison
LAR Online, Nonfiction
This morning I was a bird. My sparrow whined for me like I was her mama. House sparrows are cavity nesters, and this one is no exception. She snuggled in my palm and fell back asleep. We are one and the same, this bird ...
Today I Was A Bird by Aimee Seiff Christian
LAR Online, Nonfiction
My grandmother’s favorite food is tortilla soup, but I’ve learned not to order it for her. My family has searched far and wide, from fine-dining restaurants, Americanized “Mexican” restaurant chains, to the ...
La Marcha Adelante Es También La Marcha Fuera by Jacob Tan
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Aspen leaves flutter to the still-green grass as our youngest child, Teddy, rambles through the yard, whacking the tree’s silvery trunk and mushrooms, sprung after a rare Wyoming rain, and our raspberry bushes, their ...
Yellow by Anemone Beaulier
LAR Online, Nonfiction
A few months after I acknowledged my time to bear children was almost up, my sister and her husband announced their pregnancy. As we stood in her Los Feliz dining room, my parents and I hugged twenty-seven-year-old Tessa ...
My Supporting Role as a Childless Mother of Two by Chelsey Drysdale
LAR Online, Nonfiction
As an exercise in mind over matter and decoupling fear from fervor, I shaved my head right after I finished another four months of grotesque chemo as an attempt to even the playing field. Did you know that there’s ...
Regrowth by Judith Cooper
LAR Online, Nonfiction
