BABY MAMA May 2016 | Page 2

Editor’s note... This month we decided to toss around the idea of play (Mostly because play rhymes with May, and we’re suckers for rhymes around here.) By the time we started laying everything out, we realized that things had gotten a little deeper than we anticipated. It wasn’t all dancing around the Maypole and plucking banjos. Playing around can be a last-ditch effort to sal vage a relationship going south (“Come on Baby, Light My Fire”). Learning how to play in the Pacific Ocean can change a little girl’s relationship with her Pop forever (“The Day My Plaything Was a Surfboard”). And watching a baby’s first foray’s into play can touch a young mother with bittersweet poignancy (“Baby Got”). Play along, will ya? We’d love to hear what you think. Stay. Play. Baby Mama May.