The lovely writer Nancy Reddy joins Miranda and Sarah to talk (and cry a little bit) about the infamous John Hughes Christmas movie extraordinaire, Home Alone. We get into the weeds of Kate McAllister’s power-mom parenting choices, realizing that this bananas plot line actually feels pretty relatable, WTF a “hyper mom” might be, and the gray areas of our collective nostalgia for all things ‘90s.

The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood edited by Nancy Reddy and Emily Perez

Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick

We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman 

Wine Country 

Kid Culture:

Greeking Out

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