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This Is Why Toddlerhood Is Breaking Parents
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by Erika Matic, deeply in love, mildly unhinged, and one tantrum away from enlightenment I love my daughter more than anything in this world. I would donate organs. I would…
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What No One Tells You After You Change Your Body
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by Erika Matic, emotionally evolved but still googling questionable things at 10:47 p.m. There is a strange hobby humans have developed, and by “humans” I mean women, and by “hobby”…
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I Miss Who We Were, But I Love Who We Are
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by Erika Matic – on what long-term love actually feels like There is a specific kind of grief nobody warns you about. Not the dramatic kind. Not the kind that…
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Why I Don’t Miss the Baby Stage
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by Erika Matic, allegedly “through the hardest part” and somehow still standing There is a phrase that follows new mothers like a haunted doll with impeccable timing. “You’ll miss this.”…
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Winter, Or: How I Accidentally Became a Bad Mother According to the Snow
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by Erika Matic, currently trapped indoors while the nation collectively forgets how winter works I love snow. Let me be clear about that, because winter people are very sensitive and…
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Why Is Everyone So Determined to Ruin January 1st?
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by Erika Matic, sober, rested, and deeply uninterested in sequins There is an unspoken but aggressively enforced belief that the last day of the year must be endured rather than…
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I Accidentally Became the Person Who Has Her Life Together
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by Erika Matic, suspiciously hydrated and emotionally stable (for now) I’ve never been good at New Year’s resolutions. They feel too optimistic. Too American. Too “this year I’ll wake up…
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You Can Have a Christmas Tree Without Believing in God
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by Erika Matic, currently ruining at least three traditions at once There is a very specific tone your mother uses when she believes you have failed not only as a…
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The Balkan Woman’s Guide to Staying Positive in a Ridiculous World
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by Erika Matic, currently accepting nominations for “Most Unlikely Optimist of 2025” There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she stops, blinks twice, looks back at the smoking…
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If Corruption Had a Baby With Inflation, It Would Be Croatia 2025
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by Erika Matic, currently googling “can you take out a loan for cheese?” There’s a moment every Croatian adult experiences sometime in their late twenties or early thirties. It’s not…