Tag: motherhood
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Of History Lessons, The Pursuit of Happiness and Choice …
Assisting our eight grader with her American History lessons has called me to revisit the United States’ Declaration of the Independence, of which the second paragraph states, “ … We hold these truths self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are…
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Publishing Contracts, Motherhood, Dreams, Hopes and Wishes…
I’ve been busy these last few weeks refining and making last changes to the document files for interior and book cover of my novel, “The House”. It’s been an interesting experience bringing this piece of work, “The House” to fruition. My first book, a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident”, was…
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Ayelet Waldman, Bad Mother Anxiety and How We Come to Writing
Ayelet Waldman, wife of author Michael Chabon, mother of four and author in her own right, discusses on NPR’s Fresh Air, her trials of feeling that she’s not measuring up to what a “good mother” as defined by the late 20th early 21st century ideals.