Sarah Wheeler

5 days ago | romper.com | Sarah Wheeler

A few months ago, I took my annual pilgrimage to The Runway Sample Sale Boutique in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. I don’t live in Los Angeles, and I am not in a line of work that requires me to be fashionable. In fact, I spend most of my days at a desk in my bedroom closet. I’m not dating – the man I’ve been with for twenty years thinks my rattiest sports bra is sexy. And my two children do everything in their power to destroy nice things.

2 weeks ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

We all build our arsenals of experts. When I can’t get a stain out, I’m calling my mom. When I have a baking mishap, my sister-in-law Kate is getting an urgent message. And when I have a women’s sports emergency, you better believe I will be bugging the great Frankie de la Cretaz, who has been covering the topic, as well as trans people in sports, for a very long time, and, might I add, very well.

3 weeks ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

I am halfway through reading Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men (published by Transit Books, who are fundraising since the NEA took away their grant, in case you want to throw them a few dollar bucks). Without giving you any information beyond the first few pages, it’s about a woman recounting her years as a young girl in a kind of bunker prison filled with women, with mysterious circumstances and rules and a bleak existence. The weather is anything but bleak.

1 month ago | momspreading.substack.com | Sarah Wheeler

This Mother’s Day, I got a week plus of all the parenting while my husband went to Ireland with his own mom (shout out to MIL extraordinairess Bibi!). All the breakfast smoothies, and all the washing of the breakfast smoothie glasses and fiddly straws. All the combing of all the hair nests, and all of the not combing and wondering if the teachers clock me as an unfit mother. All the chapters of The Chocolate Touch. All the kitty litter scooping. All the one-more-tuck-ins.

2 months ago | romper.com | Sarah Wheeler

Dear GEP,My 8-year-old has been begging me for a puppy, and I worry I am losing my resolve. Part of me thinks it could be sweet and give him some good company; part of me thinks it will ruin our lives. Are pets really worth it? Could we just get goldfish or what?