After reading Patricia’s thoughtful post, I’m left wondering with this controversial reaction: Maybe it was easier when people didn’t have so many choices? Of course, I know that’s ridiculous and reductive and of course I am happy to have been born at at time when choice was possible and women were not (as) repressed as they were in my mother’s…[Read more]

I have walked a mile in your shoes, having gone back to work at a middle school teacher when my babies were three months old and only two years apart in age. Exhaustion was my closest companion for four years. My babies brought joy, and I would not send either back to the stork, but it should not have been so hard. Since no one else would…[Read more]