1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (506+ words) I'm a single mother of what doctors and insurance companies cheerfully call an "advanced maternal age," which makes me sound like an appliance with an expired warranty. In reality, I'm a 42-year-old woman with a toddler who is having'against all…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (471+ words) I stand at the stove next to a little boy. My son is six, leaning close to the Mauviel pot. The copper needs a polish, but I'm unconcerned. "Whisk," I say, trying to impart a sense of urgency. The child-sized…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (195+ words) My bottle-fed daughter of nine months is getting jealous of the other kids eating solids for lunch, so I've agreed with her part-time nanny to pack her a lunchbox. The same is true of trips out. At home we're fairly…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1219+ words) Vogue This was in 2001, the summer after my freshman year of high school. At the time it felt like'and, after 25 years of further experience, remains'the tail end of the worst year of my life. The previous fall, I'd started at…...

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2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (341+ words) One of the first moms I befriended was Miranda, whose daughter Harper was nice to The Kid and would sometimes pull up her mat next to them during nap time. I quickly discovered that Miranda went to college with one…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (240+ words) But then a voice chirps up from a nearby aisle. "Hi! It's my birthday!" says the cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond, swanning through the audience in an iridescent feathered sheath and matching headpiece designed by Jonathan Anderson. A star is…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (94+ words) Earlier this year, Chloe Malle, Vogue's head of editorial content, told me that I would love this movie she'd just seen: Sorry, Baby from actor and debut filmmaker Eva Victor. "It's so Hannah Jackson-coded," she said. This Is When We…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (565+ words) It's a Wednesday night on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and roughly 75 people, sitting in groups of about four or five each, are engaged in zealous discussion in the library of a new private members' club. "Do you believe…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (989+ words) There is so much to celebrate about being pregnant in your late 30s and 40s," writes Nell Frizzell. I was happier, more confident, more content, and better-resourced than I think I would have been two decades earlier." Certain things simply arrive into…...