Motherhood Archives

Highway 170 along the Rio Grande connects Presidio to other border areas.

August 9, 2022

West Texas Is a Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant. It’s Getting Worse.

Texas leads the U.S. in maternity ward closures, and nowhere is this more of an issue than in the western part of the state.

By Claire Suddath

The cover of cartoonist Grace Farris' book Mom Milestones: The TRUE Story of the First Seven Years.

Books |

March 28, 2022

A Clever Comic Book Wants to Change the Way We Talk to Moms

Austin artist and doctor Grace Farris’s debut, ‘Mom Milestones,’ inverts the patronizing parenting-book formula.

Health |

March 30, 2020

“We Can’t Stop the Birth”: Texas Doctors and Pregnant Women Prepare for Delivery During COVID-19

Texas hospitals are limiting the number of people in maternity wards, while some women are exploring home birth amid the coronavirus outbreak.

By Brittney Martin

The Culture |

January 25, 2017

What’s Going Down in Room 312

Motel fiction.

By Amanda Eyre Ward

November 21, 2016

How I Met My Mother

She died twenty years ago, when I was ten. Yet even as the distance grows, I've found a way to keep her close.

The Culture |

April 20, 2016

Our Town

How Lubbock’s prairie dogs taught me the meaning of home.

By Sarah Viren

True Crime |

June 30, 2002

Darlie Routier has been on death row for five years now, always insisting that she didn't kill her sons Devon and Damon. And as her lawyers prepare to head into court yet again, new information about her case raises the possibility that she may have been telling the truth all

True Crime |

September 30, 1996

Death and the Matrons

What could drive a suburban housewife to murder? The bizarre cases of Rowlett’s Darlie Routier and Fairview’s Candy Montgomery hint at the answer, and it may be closer to home than we’d like to think.

By Jim Atkinson