Episode 14: A Thousand Ways Not to Do It

Fiction writer Patti Callahan Henry tells a story cataloguing the ways she's screwed up as a mom, and how these moments become stitched, along with others, into the tapestry of the experience of parenthood, or what she calls "the daily-ness that changes everything." (Her latest novel, The Bookshop at Water's End, is out this July. Rock it!)

Katy and Alison talk about their own screw-ups, what being the best parent we can be actually means in that space of "the daily-ness," and that weird moment of catching a glimpse of at your growing kid and thinking, "Wait. Who are you, again?"

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Like this way, for example. Here's one way not to do it.