Sarah Wheeler

5 days 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.

2 weeks 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.

1 month 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?

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

Earlier this week I wrote about RFK’s dangerous, offensive, and incorrect comments about Autism. The internet is afire with reactions to this crap. There’s good serious stuff like this joint statement from dozens of Autism organizations (including ones often at odds with one another!) agreeing that:“Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism. Decades of scientific research confirm there is no causal link. Public health messaging must be grounded in science and protect all communities.

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

It’s Autism Acceptance Month, and last Thursday I met with five other parents and a teacher in our school library to do our annual Autism Read-In. As usual, the effort was completely last-minute and a bit miraculous, but also as usual, people showed the eff up.