Lydia Kiesling

1/24/2019 at 10:34 a.m.

What I Want to Hand Down to My Daughters, and What I Don’t

It would seem that family is inescapably about inheritances.

1/18/2019 at 11:06 a.m.

Did Hype Kill the ‘Cat Person’ Book?

Maybe it never had a chance.

10/3/2018 at 9:30 a.m.

We Were in the Kitchen When We Heard Christine Blasey Ford

My two young daughters, their dad, and me.

9/6/2018 at 10:54 a.m.

Becoming a Woman Who Yells at Her Children

No other transition in my life has shocked me more.

6/27/2018 at 5:00 a.m.

The Evolution of a Mormon Mommy Blogger

For the blogger formerly known as Nat the Fat Rat, the label no longer quite fits.

5/2/2018 at 11:16 a.m.

What Does Being Pregnant Feel Like? Part I

“Sometimes I felt enormously beautiful, like Venus herself arising from the sea, and sometimes I felt just enormous.”

5/19/2017 at 7:00 a.m.

The Crazy-Making Sophistication of Modern At-Home Pregnancy Tests

How forces have conspired to create the “pee-stick fugue state.”

4/12/2016 at 12:02 p.m.

Throwing Away the Most Beautiful Dress I Ever Owned

And what I realized once I finally got rid of it.