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"On Immunity," public health, diaper rationing, the two kingdoms, my daughter's first cold, and as always, breastfeeding.
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Caroline Calvert

March 2024

Having a body that made a body
On going soft, overflowing, leaking, aching, taking up space
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February 2024

I don't think we needed the Snoo.
On consumption as control and parenting in the age of too much information
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Caroline Calvert

January 2024

Turtleneck Round-Up Season: 10 books that I actually remember reading in 2023
What stuck with me during a year of hormonal fog
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Caroline Calvert
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December 2023

Separation anxiety
On motherhood post-umbilical cord, emergency scenario anxiety spirals, and not getting on the boat.
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Caroline Calvert

November 2023

The Turtleneck Season Guide to Gift Guides
Plus some gift recommendations of my own
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Piercing the bubble
On intrusive thoughts, dead babies, innocence, and the powerful empathy of mothers
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Caroline Calvert
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September 2023

July 2023

The day the music died
On "birth playlists," approaching motherhood as a point beyond which I haven't fantasized, and the role of music in middle-age
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Caroline Calvert

May 2023

The allure of romantic matchmaking
On our (my?) cultural obsession with matchmaking reality TV, Yente, how picky is too picky, and against settling
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Caroline Calvert
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April 2023

The myth of the cute pregnancy
On adjusting to the unexpectedly grotesque, grappling with ugliness, and reckoning with the reality of forced unwanted pregnancy
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December 2022

Turtleneck Round-Up Season: 10 Books I'm Still Thinking About, 2022 Edition
And what's on my library hold list for 2023
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