It's this series of mundane problems that start to snowball until Linda is about to reach her breaking point. And that's where If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Mary Bronstein's surreal and tense new psychological thriller, holds you in its iron grip, forcing you to feel every new stressor and inconvenience that Linda is experiencing, until you feel like you are about to explode.
I wrote them letters for special days because I asked people who had lost parents what they wanted most from them. I'd write a sentence and sob. But little by little, sometimes at 3 a.m., I wrote them. For weddings, pregnancies, graduations, the first and last day of school. I even wrote one for a grandchild I may never have.
"When people say, 'But you can adopt,' I don't want to adopt," Aniston said during a Wondery+ Early Access episode of the Armchair Expert podcast, according to People. "I want my own DNA in a little person. That's the only way, selfish or not, whatever that is, I've wanted it."
When schoolteacher and influencer Joanna Cluskey was diagnosed with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia, she worried she would never become a mother - but she has learned how to manage the pain and is now a mum of three A cursory glance at Joanna Cluskey's Instagram page and you might think she leads a perfect life. The 42-year-old mother of three and primary school teacher, from Galway City, also works as a model and a stylist, and has amassed 74.5k followers in just three years on her account, @stylebyjo.
My Mother Reg wished me to go with him to the field, I paused because I did not want to go; But in her quiet way she made me yield Reluctantly, for she was breathing low. Her hand she slowly lifted from her lap And, smiling sadly in the old sweet way, She pointed to the nail where hung my cap. Her eyes said: I shall last another day.
I was on maternity leave and, looking back, I may have been having a manic episode. I'd had a long string of admin jobs that I hated. Usually, it was the case that I didn't know what my job was and nobody else did either. When I was 29, I thought: I haven't really done anything creative or put myself out there. Here I am with two kids, what am I doing? So I signed up for an open mic night.
Bronstein's film-her first since her début feature, " Yeast " (2008)-boasts its own version of that line. "I'm one of those people who's not supposed to be a mom," a mother named Linda (Rose Byrne) laments. Her young daughter (Delaney Quinn) has a chronic gastrointestinal illness, and her husband, a ship captain, is away at sea. In the space of several fraught days, an already difficult situation is compounded by nightmarish setbacks.
Second, and most radically: We hear Linda's child but do not see her. At first this feels uncomfortable, even frustrating. But Bronstein has explained it simply: The moment you see a child's face, that's where your empathy goes (especially a sick one). In fact, this child, played by a sweet-voiced Delaney Quinn, is not even named. This movie's about Linda, remember?
Some of us want to raise kids who never know a moment of discomfort; some of us are focused on raising kids who achieve all their dreams, no matter how much it costs. Some of us just want to be present and engaged, filling our kids with core memories, and some of us just want to go to bed every night knowing we did our best to keep our kids healthy, happy, and safe that day.
Now I have to learn to do the hardest thing a parent has the privilege of doing and let you go. No, it's NOT forever, but it's the end of one big chapter, so - yeah - I'm going to cry. (I'm also 100% percent going to sit on your Dad's shoulders to work on the lighting in your dorm room.) I love you, Monkey. Always No matter what,
Sasha Bonét's matrilineal memoir, " The Waterbearers," traces the lives of her mother and grandmother: powerful, complicated women whose personalities have been shaped by the rough edges of American society. Mothers, she suggests, can pass on both grace and grief. The flow of the bayous of Houston, where she grew up, remind her of "the way my mother and grandmother pour into me, and I into my daughter; the valuable and the harmful, the minerals and the mud."
In 2019, Locke's first memoir, From Scratch, became a Reese's Book Club pick and, soon after, a global hit miniseries on Netflix. We all fell in love right along with her as she recounted her life with Saro, the beautiful Sicilian man she met while studying abroad in Italy in college. But life is full of challenging transitions. As we discovered in the book and miniseries, while Tembi and Saro's love for each other seemed transmutable from day one, it would ultimately have to take another form following his death.
That not your [family member]'s formula entered the vernacular in a 1988 US car ad, when it was directed at dads: Not your father's Oldsmobile. Now, though, it seems mostly to have defaulted to mothers. It's a lazy marketing brag or headline, a shorthand for new, directional and disruptive, and I've started to hate it. I'm not usually actively angered by reflexive sexism and ageism; I tend to let it wash over me in a dispiriting wave.
Sarah McLachlan's singing voice is one of the wonders of the pop music world. It has alternately belted out and whispered hit songs ("Adia," "Building a Mystery") as well as the most devastating Disney song of all time (Randy Newman's "When She Loved Me" from "Toy Story 2") and is a pristine musical instrument. It can elegantly vault octaves, scoop notes without a croaky glottal fry and crack words into multi-note, velvety yodels. It can be breathy and ethereal or a searing flamethrower - and she transforms into an angelic chorus of one when she tracks layers of her own harmonies.
Look, I don't claim to have all the answers, but as a millennial mom of three who feels a little flustered every morning when she opens her eyes and imagines what's out there in the world, waiting for us that day, I do have one: Everybody has their secrets. And I don't mean super dark, dastardly secrets, but just little things. Like when you told your bestie it was fine for her to cancel on you again, but really you went home and cried.
In a birthday post for her 15-year-old son Draco, McKellar, 50, included a handful of images of the two of them through the years - from pregnancy until now, when Draco towers over her. But what really stands out is the fact that as you watch baby Draco turn into a lanky teenager, McKellar looks almost exactly the same for a decade and a half.
Camilla Luddington is one of those people who always seems to look flawless: on our TV screens, as Dr. Jo Wilson on Grey's Anatomy; on our social media FYPs, where we laugh over relatable reels of her and her husband; in clips from her podcast with former Grey's costar Jessica Capshaw. But sit down with her for 10 minutes, and she'll be the first to tell you she is *not* as put together as she looks.
I'd spent a year getting pregnant, then unpregnant. I'd wake in the middle of the night and remember: heartbeat, heartbeat. At times, I felt absurd for my grief. I couldn't ascertain what the metric of a mother was, what goalpost had to be met. Had I met it? Surely grief like this love like this had to be more deeply earned?
Garth shared the behind-the-scenes of the move-in journey on social media, posting a video on Instagram capturing the entire process of turning Fiona's dorm room at school into her "home away from home." In the video, Garth and Fiona hauled her belongings from the car into the dorm room before the main event: decorating. "Come with me as I help my daughter move into her freshman dorm," Garth said in a voice over. "I can't believe this moment is finally here."
Here's the truth: I don't prioritize friendship in this season. Not because I don't like you. Not because you're not amazing, but because my time is my most expensive currency. And if I give you any of it, you're a big freaking deal.
Sex remains a vital part of my happiness, yet balancing motherhood with self-care makes it challenging to find the mood for intimacy. Scheduling intimate moments aids in rekindling desire.
The documentary on Chile's prison system reveals the challenges faced by women who are mostly mothers, blending their personal experiences with the struggle for dignity and connection.
Yasmin Khan's emotional moment during a cooking segment illustrated the stark reality of the famine in Gaza, connecting personal struggles with a global crisis.
