A Word With • Teacher Moms
Teacher by day, witch by night
Claire Zulkey
E.W. #13: Theranos, but for breast milk?
Here is a bad press release I got last week. I am going to redact the name of the company so as not to encourage them: Working on anything for Mother's Day? New mom essentials? A really interesting mompreneur piece? Wanted to introduce you to ::Bad Idea Company:
One witchy Easter thing
Evil Witches #12: Why is everything so dumb
In which we start to move, but slowly, because we get head rushes these days
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I know you.
I have a friend who was pregnant the same time as I was, both times. We share a ton about our lives because it’s easy to check in with someone who is going through what you are. Sometimes this type of relationship can get touchy when you realize you’
Food
Your angry dinners
Last September, the day of the Kavanaugh hearings, I spent a lot of time online with friends, revisiting old bad memories of men from before. At the end of the day we were mad at everybody, but mostly men. I asked them what rage-dinner they were making for our
Household
Stay strong
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What is witches?
Evil Witches began as a few private Facebook messages to moms I trusted and liked—basically, people who would say “Oh my god, me too” and commiserate with me, or better yet, one-up me, when I needed to complain about domestic life, which was often. They are women who
Witchy takes
You have permission to...
I asked some of my old-hand mom friends what message they could send to new mothers out there, or to women discovering that they are witches (welcome.) The message was one of permission—what you are allowed to do but don’t think you can or should. Some of
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The Legend of Pregnancy Horror Finger
The other day, a friend crowdsourced tales of women's oddest pregnancy symptoms on Facebook, and the responses ranged from eczema to a better singing range to improved eyesight. But nobody had a better story than this lady: "When I was pregnant with my first, at around 30
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Evil Witches #11: Your bosses
• Greetings • When my firstborn was in preschool the teacher did this letter of the week thing. She’d send home a brown paper lunch bag in which you would send back a thing that started with that letter. I am sorry to say that I spent a lot of time
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Evil Witches #10: I know you
I have a friend who was pregnant the same time as I was, both times. We share a ton about our lives because it’s easy to check in with someone who is going through what you are. Sometimes this type of relationship can get touchy when you realize you’