The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
But I love being a mom. I’m not always great at it—let’s be very clear about that. Sometimes I yell. I don’t enjoy playing make-believe, and I mostly leave the work of crawling on the floor and pushing Hot Wheels around the rug to Ken and the grandparents. Sometimes, I can get very caught up in my work and have a hard time focusing on what my son i... See more
In Defense of Motherhood
In trying to process it, I wonder why I’ve felt such inner resistance to accepting that anything I do as a mother might actually be a page in a book. And really, it doesn’t take long to connect that feeling to the fact that in popular culture, at least in America for the past forever
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
What I soon realized is that maintaining a firewall between my “mom” self and the rest of my self was making motherhood much less interesting. The rest of myself was being so challenged — psychologically, spiritually, philosophically, creatively and intellectually — by caring for my son. But I resisted it, and tried to keep care small because nobod... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
What about ME? I just had a baby over here! But I am deeply cowardly, and the words stay buried somewhere in my solar plexus.