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my middle / brother and I drifted and tossed, an / incomplete set
People are stepping up all over--defending their rights as citizens, defending the earth. Working together. #democracy #environment #solidarity #citizenengagement
@hollay.bsky.social gives fascinating insights into her creation of her novel The Unravelling of Ou in this @literarymama.bsky.social interview. An important read for creative writers!
"Life, on pause. Treatment is your only agenda for the next year."
- from Christie Ellen's essay, "Last Swim," in our May/June issue:
***NEW EPISODE!***
In the latest episode of This Mama Is Lit!, Amanda Fields and @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social talk with Andrea Louie, author of Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, about her grandmother’s 1952 U.S. Mother of the Year Award:
***NEW EPISODE!***
In the latest episode of This Mama Is Lit!, Amanda Fields and @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social talk with Andrea Louie, author of Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, about her grandmother’s 1952 U.S. Mother of the Year Award:
Op-ed from our EIC about ed tech and higher ed:
CCSU’s R2 Polytechnic push raises troubling questions ctmirror.org/2026/06/11/c...
This Restaurant Stopped Charging for Food. And Profits Are Up.
#GiftLink 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/d...
"Scene from a Marriage," by Kathie Collins, in our May/June issue:
"I am a recovering helicopter parent."
Don't miss Lisa Roe, author of Big & Lily, in conversation with @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Sam Field on This Mama Is Lit!
Box Elder County seemed perfect for a hyperscale data center, but Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos project ignited an unusual civic revolt, and a reckoning for Republican lawmakers
The sun draws beads of sweat from my upper lip. I trudge through the uneven sand, arms loaded down with chairs, bags, a cooler, and several towels. I squint in the face of the bright sun and scout the...
Amanda and Holly chat with Andrea Louie, author of Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, about her grandmother’s 1952 U.S. Mother of the Year Award.
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Amanda and Holly chat with Andrea Louie, author of Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, about her grandmother’s 1952 U.S. Mother of the Year Award.
The Sony Hi8 Handycam cassette shows how it was—me at twenty-nine, haggard but elegant in winterberry red cashmere, a towheaded two-year-old riding my hip, her three-year-old sister tugging her hand ...
Holly Rizzuto Palker and Sam Field chat with Lisa Roe, author of Big & Lily, about sisterhood, second acts, and the ways women learn to rewrite the stories they’ve been living.
"Every door in our basement
had a hole kicked through it."
- from Anne M. Terashima's poem, "On a family camping trip at dusk," in our May/June issue:
Thank you to @literarymama.bsky.social and @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social for the feature! In this interview, I talk about my debut novel and fourth book, The Unravelling of Ou, which is entirely narrated by a soft puppet and explorers shame, oppression, in the creative ways we learned to survive.
my oldest brother ran awayafter a shouting match with our father.Maybe they argued about cleaning upthe camp stove, or something cruelmy brother had said to our mom. Back thenmy brother fought often, ...
"To survive, many of us use the tools at our disposal. Not everyone can get away from it all or has access to therapy. Sometimes we have to find our own way through with whatever we have in front of us."
@sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social interviews @hollay.bsky.social:
A Sock Puppet Tackles Motherhood, Memory, and Identity: A Conversation with Hollay Ghadery
The cheeky homemade sock puppet on the cover of Hollay Ghadery’s debut novel, The Unravelling of Ou, looks...
