πŸ”–πŸ’¬ Parents Are Not Okay:

Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.

there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood πŸ”–πŸ“šπŸ’¬

Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.

πŸ’¬πŸ”– “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.

Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co