Editor’s Note

When I first approached Roxane about editing a parenting issue of PANK, we were both a tad unsure of just how it would shake out.  Sure, many of us are writers and parents, but most of us -whether out of necessity or sanity- try our damndest to keep those two worlds separate.   This issue would be evoking the collision of those two lives, your two lives.  But then, the pieces started rolling in: poems and stories about raising children, losing children, longing for children, loving children, and all the moments and feelings that comprise this phylum to which we proudly belong.  Suddenly , like a child itself, our parenting issue grew into something richer and deeper than I had ever imagined it would.   The writers in this issue have created an honest and beautiful portrait of the world’s hardest job.  I hope you enjoy the pieces I chose as much as I enjoyed reading them. Dive into the issue, here.