On the things we can’t control, and the ways they force us to let go — This month — the whole of 2022, really — has been a rollercoaster on a personal level. I’ve been pregnant with my first child, which, as a naive and ambitious person, I thought wouldn’t affect my work or my writing or this magazine — spoiler alert: I was wrong. Keeping…

On spring and second chances — It’s officially spring, and things are coming back to life in the northern hemisphere. Snow is melting, grass is growing (way too fast for some of us to keep up with mowing it), and previously brittle, brown branches are breaking out in blossoms. I never get tired of watching the…

February is a tricky month: grey, dark, short — and then there’s Valentine’s Day. — It took me a while to get on board with Valentine’s Day. I mean, look, we all know it’s a made-up holiday whose sole intent is to sell shit, right? But it persists, and once I learned to adjust my perspective I got kinda into it. As a teen, I…

The myth(?) of the summer slowdown and an announcement — Well, that happened. This is entirely my (Anne’s) fault — life got hectic on various fronts, and we didn’t solicit enough submissions, and I forgot to put writing this newsletter on my TeuxDeux app (and if it’s not on the TeuxDeux, it’s not getting duxn) and before we realized what…

What defines a mother? Does she need to be blood related to a child, or just consider that child to be family? Does her child need to grow up, does she need to raise her from infancy to adulthood? These are the questions our May pieces wrestled with. On Mother’s…

Yeah, yeah, yeah – this is yet another ‘spring has sprung’ email. And we’re behind the curve, as marketing trends go, too. April has been a pretty wild month over here at Moments Between. Both Magda and I have had a lot on our plates, and there were some touch-and-go…