The other day my six-year-old daughter, with a sympathetic expression, put her arm around me and said, “It must be hard to be a mother. You don’t get to do the all things you want to do.” My heart lurched. Clearly, in this time of craziness and overwhelm, when I haven’t been at my best,Continue reading “unfinished stories”
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how an introvert mom survives quarantine
Life has changed, pretty much for everyone, in some way, in the past week. Each notification of something else being shut down and canceled was another blow to my introvert psyche, and finally, after the announcement that my two-year-old’s Dutch creche was being closed, I had to come to grips with reality : I wasContinue reading “how an introvert mom survives quarantine”
coffee, then words 