The perils of reading your toddler “Harold and the Purple Crayon.”

“To feel as though your work is in conflict with your motherhood is…unbearable; there’s no question that family will win out for most of us if push comes to shove, but at what cost?” @meganmargulies Vogue Magazine vogue.com/article/mother…

“Parenting itself is an act of optimism, a willingness to believe that the world, your kids, and you, will be better tomorrow than you are today.” amilniazi The Cut thecut.com/2023/08/having…

“Writers, stop chasing social media numbers. Use the hammer when it’s the right tool—and stop caring about whether the hammer loves you back.” Jane Friedman janefriedman.com/writers-stop-u…

Hello from the netherworld. I look down and there is milk on everything and I look up and there is the Milky Way. When I look down again my son's onesie is both the smallest thing and already too small.

Pumpkins are dessert squashes. Don’t @ me.

“Building upon our longstanding altar to the dead has proven a radical, hopeful act amid gutting loss.” Lauren DePino 🇮🇹 HuffPost huffpost.com/entry/i-keep-m…

The Paris Catacombs are a lot newer than you think. Read how bursting basements and sinkholes from mines dating back to the Romans led to the macabre 19th century solution. history.com/news/paris-cat…

Henry Kissinger is infamous for what he did in Vietnam. His legacy in Cambodia and Laos is lesser known. I discuss it for HISTORY. history.com/news/henry-kis…

“His was a foreign policy enamored with the exercise of power and drained of concern for the human beings left in its wake.” The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/11/30/opi…

“I saw familiar names, Nixon & Kissinger. Names that I hadn’t seen since high school, but this time their legacies were tied to the massacre of my ancestors and war crimes—not to heroic actions for democracy, as I had been taught in school.” Legacies of War thedailybeast.com/henry-kissinge…

I came across the Chevalier d'Eon while researching a piece on Freemasonry and was immediately intrigued. Here's my latest for HISTORY. history.com/news/chevalier…

In 'Flores and Miss Paula' by Melissa Macedo Rivero, milennial Monica Flores and her Peruvian mother Paula balance their relationship on the edges of cultural and generation gaps in the wake of the death of their patriarch. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/3vBaCOj

“Not until we pay grief the attention it seeks can we live again.” -the amazing Lauren DePino 🇮🇹 in NPR npr.org/sections/healt…?

In my latest for @History, I got to highlight ingenious ciphers created by emperors, presidents, and the Navajo Code Talkers: history.com/news/ciphers-s…

Can animals sense a pending eclipse? Because I've had a wolf spider crawl above my head and a snake slide over my foot today and I'm wondering if a werewolf is next.

I am over the moon to be attending Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences this August. As a first-timer, all advice is welcome!

Tomorrow (Friday 6/28) at 9:30 AM EST, I will be addressing the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on behalf of Legacies of War at the historic @themayflowerhoteldc. Watch the livestream at home starting at 9:30 Friday at dpaa.mil

For 36 years, my family waited for Jack to come home. There are hundreds of families still waiting. Thank you, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), for the chance to meet with them and hear their stories on behalf of Legacies of War. youtu.be/Ijq1M2IBf1c?si…

“Grief is an energy that wants to move through the body, and in our loss-avoidant culture, we’re prone to fight against it.” Lauren DePino 🇮🇹 NYT Magazine nytimes.com/2024/09/17/mag…