Motherhood is one crazy roller coaster of emotional ups and downs. While a handbook would be nice and often feels required, one does not exist.

Static fizzles gray all around me. The baby knows how to say “ssh.” I wish I could make it quiet. Days pass when it’s all I can hear. I see a leaf on the ground and it strikes me that he would have examined it. Pulled it apart. Turned it over to see what’s living ...

I’ve always been aware of how hard parenting is and can be. When my wife and I decided to become parents we had the same reservations as any new parents. We weren’t sure what it entailed. We were nervous, scared, excited and filled with dread of the unknown. What I didn’t realize was the mother-shaming ...