Sometimes, I feel like I’m running out of time. As birthdays pass and seasons change, I take stock of what I have–and haven’t–gotten around to yet. For instance: It’s a big, scary, wonderful idea, the notion of having children. So many thoughts and expectations attach themselves to the first hopeful imaginings of bearing a child; it’s [...]
A few years back, I was having a conversation with a friend a few years my senior. I was a bright-faced newlywed, fresh from the altar and a three-tiered, strawberry-flavored wedding cake and a magical honeymoon on the beach. My friend—let’s call her A. —had been married for about five years, and had one child. [...]
Today, I celebrate being a woman. I’m not speaking about someone’s idea of what a woman should be; I have no interest in living up to stereotype-drenched fantasies, which would see me constantly pushing a vacuum and whipping up the perfect meatloaf every night to serve to my husband and smiling, remarkably clean children. I’m [...]
