Mother Essentials: Maggie Smith
Even if you don’t know Maggie Smith’s name at first glance, you might know her words. In 2016, her poem “Good Bones” went viral, moving readers across the world—and for good reason. The award-winning...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Jenny Slate
Last year was a big one for beloved actress, comedian, and writer Jenny Slate. Her animated short film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On was nominated for an Oscar, and she won a SAG Award as part of the...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Ashley Neese
Is you feel like you’re living in a constant state of overwhelm, Ashley Neese is someone you need to know. For over a decade, Ashley’s been working at the intersections of embodiment, transformation,...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Subikksha Balaje of Goldstories
Inspired by her strong maternal lineage, Subikksha Balaje traded a 13-year-career in tech to start the jewelry brand, Goldstories, in 2021. “My mother has an eye for design and was always sketching,...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Author Katya Apekina
The person I credit for making motherhood even a possible life choice for me, in that she returned the role to its core—an experience of beauty, however complicated or fraught, but not a prize—was the...
View ArticleMother Essentials: The Mamas Behind Storq
This year marks 10 years of Storq (!), the minimal maternity brand known for comfortable, stylish, and practical essentials for pregnancy, breastfeeding, and all those child wrangling days ahead....
View ArticleMother Essentials: Alex Elle
The current life of Alex Elle looks a bit different from the time we first profiled her in 2017. Back then, she was the mother of one child and trying to conceive another. Fast forward two and a half...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Cleo Wade
Celebrated poet and author Cleo Wade is back at it again, with her second-ever children’s book, May You Love and Be Loved: Wishes For Your Life. The follow-up to What The Road Said (2021), her new...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Erin Boyle and Rose Pearlman
Today’s Mother Essentials is an artful double-header. Brooklyn-based moms Erin Boyle and Rose Pearlman were mutual admirers of each other’s work before they became friends in 2018. Now, eight years...
View ArticleMother Essentials: April Showers of Afro Unicorn
Unicorns remain a fascination for kids across the world. But have you noticed the lack of diversity when it comes to these magical creatures and their long, straight, flowing locks and white hides?...
View ArticleFather Essentials: Todd Selby
With Father’s Day literally around the corner, we are flipping the script on our Mother Essentials column and featuring a good ‘ol dad. Todd Selby—a.k.a. The Selby—is a photographer, director, artist,...
View ArticleMother Essentials: The Mamas Behind MAJO Ideas
Today’s Mother Essentials list is a delicious, double-stuffed rendition, thanks the inspiring bicoastal mamas behind MAJO Ideas. Striking a friendship during the pandemic, San Francisco-based Ligaya...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Kellie Menendez
Patterns—they are all around us. This is the message of Kellie Menendez‘ debut children’s book, Patterns, Patterns Everywhere. The San Francisco-based founder of textile studio Half Full knows a thing...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Kylee Heath
When celebrity hairstylist Kylee Heath isn’t styling the locks of some of our favorite Hollywood stars (Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Maya Rudolph, Awkwafina, Reese Witherspoon, Riley Keough, and the...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Fiona Montgomery of Dodo Banana
San Francisco-based mother Fiona Montgomery knows a thing or two about stylish wares. When the former PR director (for brands like Loeffler Randall and Behnaz Sarafpour) and Designer and Partner at...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Emma Flanders, Co-Founder of Hawks
If you need a little inspiration to get yourself—and your kids—outside this summer, rejoicing in the many gifts of Mother Earth, look no further than today’s Mother Essentials list and the mama behind...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Lanée Slaughter of MAMA & OG
“Irritatingly inedible” is the way Lanée Slaughter describes her food-inspired creations for MAMA & OG, the resin art business she created in 2020 after struggling to find Black representation in...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Maria Dueñas Jacobs of Super Smalls
Mama of three Maria Dueñas Jacobs knows a thing or two about bold, sparkly things. Lucky for us, the former fashion editor (most notably at ELLE, where she was Accessories Director), has applied her...
View Article(Grand)Mother Essentials: Stephanie Allain
Being a grandparent is one of the chief inspirations in Stephanie Allain‘s life right now. And it was the birth of her first grandaughter that inspired her to dip her toes into kid-lit for the very...
View ArticleMother Essentials: Artist & Author Suzy Ultman
A rainbow of color, playful graphics, and optimism are all hallmarks of artist Suzy Ultman‘s work. So, it’s no wonder that her Mother Essentials list is filled with all of the above. The Ohio-based...
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