Kaitlyn Teer

1 week ago | joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer

Hi! How’s your week going? This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and the holiday can feel tough for many reasons. Today, we’re featuring 10 women who are sharing their experiences, and we’d love to hear from you, too…First up, Aminatou Sow, whose mom died two decades ago, shares how it feels to navigate adulthood as a “motherless daughter”:I was 20 when my mom died. That day, I felt like I’d been struck by lightning. My body actually ached.

2 weeks ago | joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer

Welcome to The April Edit! How’s your week going? The weather’s been so gorgeous here, we’ve been trying to eat dinner on the stoop every night.

3 weeks ago | joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer

Hi! How is your week? My mom is visiting this weekend, which is always a treat. For today’s issue, we talked to , a health educator and writer. (You may remember her beauty uniform and advice on pregnancy and sex.) Erica now writes the newsletter Soft Boundaries, which she describes as “a gentle space to help you explore the boundaries of your inner world.”She lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée and feels excited to be approaching 40. “I was a late bloomer and came out at 33.

3 weeks ago | joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer

Hello!Our third Big Salad & Friends live stream airs tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12 p.m. ET with NYTimes-bestselling poet Kate Baer. We’ll be chatting about poetry (and how funny and real it can be), female friendship, vibrators, parenting (she has four kids), and how to switch into a creative mode, or as she says, “get your head in the clouds.” Will be a fun and laid-back conversation; and we’ll be answering reader questions, too, which is my favorite part.

4 weeks ago | joannagoddard.substack.com | Joanna Goddard |Kaitlyn Teer

Hey there, how is your week going? This is a very hard time in the U.S., as well as many places around the world, and I want to send everyone a big virtual hug. I hope you’re hanging in there and able to take care of yourself and the people around you. Stay tuned for an upcoming Big Salad volunteer group that we hope you’ll join. For now, I’d love to share eight things I noticed around Brooklyn, including small joys, little mottos, and ways to connect with loved ones and strangers.