A few months ago, I read my piece, “Always get back up,” to an audience at “Listen to Your Mother,” a unique nationwide reading series that for four years had a show in Baltimore. The story I shared was about the different takes on mothering I’d experienced in my youth …

My 15-year-old daughter and I watched World of Dance recently. The next show was Dateline: Saturday Night Mystery. The commercial for the episode must have caught my daughter’s attention because she begged, “Don’t turn the channel,” when I grabbed the remote to adjust the volume. “I like these shows,” she …