I've had to stick up for my temperament and my writing many times. It never seems to get easier. I still feel I'm saying the words 'awkward' or 'weird' when I say I'm an introvert. I still hesitate to say I'm a writer when asked what I do as a career. Both words seem to need justification, validation [...]
Will I always feel a pang of guilt about loving time alone to work and write? Is it possible the best gift I can offer the world lies outside my role as a mother? Baby-sitters allowed me to preserve my sanity, to the extent that I have it. I always had at least three hours [...]
I didn't fall apart during or after the divorce like everyone expected. I was worried as hell about how it would affect our children, scared to death about taking care of everything myself (how would I find the energy?) but ultimately not afraid to be alone. I knew I was on my way. I was doing [...]
…we did spend a good part of our income on household help. I don’t regret that at all. Baby-sitters allowed me to preserve my sanity, to the extent that I have it. I always had at least three hours in the morning to write. I couldn’t have given up writing. I think I could have [...]
It is 2006 and I have everything. My husband is making professional athlete money as an executive at a hedge fund. We have three healthy, beautiful, active, children. We recently moved into a spacious and impressive home. I am getting to know people by throwing dinner parties for my husband’s co-workers and attending neighborhood Bunco [...]
Years ago I watched a Larry King interview with country music legend, Garth Brooks. Garth spoke openly about the reasons for his retirement in 2001. His first marriage was ending. He’d been on the road for months at a time and hadn’t been a good partner. He felt guilty for not being home with [...]
