TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

READ

Esther Amini, Sheltering With Ghosts

Chris Bohjalian, The Short Stories I Found in the Sweater Box

Alli Frank, How David Sedaris Is Helping Me Get By

Rachel Levy Lesser, Wait, Did I Kill My Book Club?

Kelly McWilliams and Jewell Parker Rhodes, 10 Unforgettable Mother-Daughter Relationships in Fiction

Ashley Prentice Norton, Why Moms Really Join Book Clubs

Gretchen Rubin, Read More Books

Tiffany Shlain, A Technology Pioneer Shuts Down, Weekly

Reema Zaman, Dystopian Fiction is Made For This Moment

Eilene Zimmerman, The Books Getting Me Through Quarantine

 

WORK OUT

Elliot Ackerman, What My Father Taught Me

Karen Dukess, Rowing into Midlife, One Stroke at a Time

Jan Eliasberg, Want to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others? Try Tree Pose

Suzanne Falter, After My Daughter Died, My Son Took Up Rock Climbing

Christina Geist, I Don’t Want to Work Out. I’m a Lorelai.

Dylan Lauren, The Retro Workout That Changed My Life

Rachel Levy Lesser, Breaking Up With My Kids

Courtney Maum, I Finally Learned to Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

Zibby Owens, Racing Against the Coronavirus: How Working Out is Keeping Me Sane

Jill Santopolo, How a Failed Relationship Made Me a Runner

Sara Shepard, These Days, I’m Running to Stay Sane

Bonnie Tsui, What Locker-Room Talk Sounds Like to Me

 

EAT

Elissa Altman, My Mother Says No

Nina Renata Aron, In Russia, Luggage Lost, Identity Found

Dibs Baer, Hey, Food Network Addicts: This is Our Time to Shine

Alison Cayne, What the Brady Bunch Taught Me About Family Dinners

Lauren Braun Costello, There Are No Plans to Make, So Why Not Plan Meals?

Rene Denfeld, Food Can Hurt

Sonali Dev, It Was Never About the Dough

Phyllis Grant, In Provence, Soothed by Goat Yogurt

Laura Hankin, What I Saw at Your Kid’s Birthday Party

Courtney Maum, To Papayas, With Love

Zibby Owens, The Weight of it All

Beth Ricanati, M.D., Baking Challah to Connect

 

HAVE SEX

Lisa Barr, Forget Date Night - Try Date Day

Rachel Bertsche, Here’s How Long it Takes to Have Good Sex

Karma Brown, When I Got Coronavirus, My Husband Became My Wife

V.C. Chickering, Your Orgasm Could Save Your Marriage

William Dameron, Yes, But Not Now

Claire Gibson, How to Have Sex with a Germaphobe

Caitlin Mullen, What My Mother Taught Me About Sex

Zibby Owens, Don’t Crush My Butterflies

Wendy Walker, Now’s Not The Time

 

BREATHE

Liz Astrof, Moms Don’t Have Time to Cry

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, The Life-Changing Magic of Letting Go

Deborah Burns, My Mother and Me: An Unrequited Love Story

Lea Carpenter, White Noise

Georgia Clark, In Vietnam, A Glimpse of a New Life

Donna Hemans, This Little Sprout of Mine

Janice Kaplan, In Japan, a Mother and Son Find New Balance

Nicole C. Kear, Lessons from My Origami Failures

John Kenney, Awake: 3:01 am

Sally Koslow, Why I’m Glad No One’s Driving Right Now -- Including Me

Maya Shanbhag Lang, Growing Up, Every Day Was Father’s Day

Evangeline Lilly, Moms Don’t Have Time for the Movies

Zibby Owens, Kyle and Zibby: Stepfather, Step Right Up

Mary Laura Philpott, Next Steps: A Perfectionist Tackles the Unknown

Julie Satow, Does My Daughter Miss Her Babysitter Too Much?

Melissa T. Shultz, Tales of a Recovering Nurturer

Kathleen West, I’m a Teacher But Even I Can’t Homeschool My Kids

 

AUTHOR FEATURES

 

AT HOME WITH

Janelle Brown

Dan Peres

Lauren Mechling

Rochelle Weinstein

 

POSTCARD FROM THE PAST

Megan Angelo

Alice Berman

Casey Schwartz

Teresa Sorkin