Weekend Reads

I don't know how it is where you are, but here in eastern Washington, the weather is finally fine! The tulips and daffodils have bloomed, the grass is green, and it's warm enough to walk without a sweater. It's hardly weather for staying indoors, reading, but I suppose you can't stay outdoors all the time, or if you can, it's always nice to sit and read in the sunshine. Some suggestions:

An apt review/discussion about The Five-Year Engagement (may contain spoilers...)

Some poetry by Lisa Fink at PANK.

A potentially unanswerable but very real question: How do you protect your daughter from your mother's BS?

Flash fiction by Laura Lampton Scott at Monkeybicycle.

A cool essay on coaching, encouragement, and kids.

Book recommendations from Caitlin Horrocks, author of This Is Not Your City.

On pregnancy and privacy and fear.

A letter/recommendation regarding a book I want to read.

And, to get you back outside again, how to do a cartwheel.