Archive - The Auntie Bulletin

An Auntie’s Summer Reading List about Motherhood: Fiction Edition

The novels that taught me how to show up for moms.

Jul 4 •

June 2025

On Gendering and Not Gendering Children

A practical everyday guide to showing kids they're loved, exactly as they are.

Jun 27 •

Interdependence is My New Retirement Plan

Will I wind up dying alone in a leaky tent under a freeway overpass? Stay tuned for the next 40 years and find out!

Jun 17 •

Interdependence is My New Retirement Plan

Will I wind up dying alone in a leaky tent under a freeway overpass? Stay tuned for the next 40 years and find out!

Jun 13 •

Do You Tell Kids to Share – or Do You Teach Them How?

The difference matters.

Jun 6 •

Parents Who (Reluctantly) Leave Public Schools

A peek into my scholarly research

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Grown Ups Share

Practical everyday sharing ideas from five years in cohousing.

May 30 •

Nine Books to Read with the Kids in Your Life (and Two to Approach with Caution)

Talking about children’s literature with Sri Juneja of Readable Moments

May 23 •

Six Signs You May Want to Skip Parenthood and Become an Auntie Instead

#5: Your partner is a man

May 16 •

There's No Card for This

Watch now | A conversation — with transcript! — about what makes Mother's Day so complicated for so many of us, and how we can reclaim agency.

May 9 •

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Ryan Rose Weaver (she/hers)

54:25

Complicated Mothers Day

If you're grieving, raging, or simply feeling unseen, come sit with us.

May 2 •

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Ryan Rose Weaver (she/hers)

April 2025

In Your Early 20s? Why Not Foster Four Children?

A story of chosen family – plus, thinking about foster children without feeling guilty.

Apr 25 •

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