Archive - Terms of endearment

Beauty, power, and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

A millennial feminist and her beauty-obsessed daughter watch the Netflix show

Jun 27 •

Sarah Menkedick

I lived with ten women and nineteen kids for a month in Spain.

On hanging out, being held, and anxiety.

Jun 3 •

Sarah Menkedick

May 2025

Mother's Day in Morocco

On witnessing and learning from other mothers

May 13 •

Sarah Menkedick

April 2025

On finding hope in nuclear catastrophe

Teaching Chernobyl and learning care

Apr 25 •

Sarah Menkedick

Are children the most discriminated against group in our society?

The case for children's rights

Apr 2 •

Sarah Menkedick

February 2025

No one asked you to

On the Super Bowl, America's brutal history, learning Portuguese, and wearing Stars and Stripes

Feb 12 •

Sarah Menkedick

January 2025

Einstein thinks you should play more

On facilitating versus teaching, the urgent need for the humanities, and not taking it personally

Jan 11 •

Sarah Menkedick

The gift of fearlessness

A different kind of generosity

Jan 4 •

Sarah Menkedick

December 2024

Every time is the last

A holiday meditation

Dec 23, 2024 •

Sarah Menkedick

Why the left must reclaim birth

Expert worship, "believe science," and the word "natural"

Dec 18, 2024 •

Sarah Menkedick

To be right or to be good

On tough choices, refusing binaries, and Swedish candy

Dec 12, 2024 •

Sarah Menkedick

The oldest and simplest story

Jumping naked into the Baltic Sea in Swedish November

Dec 2, 2024 •

Sarah Menkedick

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