Thinkingmama

On being a mom and being a newspaper editor:

I clean up a lot of poop now, just like I did when I worked in newspapers. The difference? At least at home I don’t have to swallow the stuff. The newspaper world had a lot of bull to begin with. As it decays, the-stuff-you-have-to-put-up-with quotient [...]

It’s the first week of my being unemployed for the first time since I was old enough to collect a paycheck, mostly due to my new role as a mother and partly due to other factors such as the slow, painful death of the newspaper industry. But I want to keep writing, editing, thinking. And [...]