Asher is a few months away from turning four, and for the last few years, I have been in the rather tubelike experience of motherhood. I am twenty pounds overweight, and I feel out of place in Los Angeles, in my marriage, in my house, in my own skin. Even though I’m home all the time, I rarely feel at home. I am a person fully in charge of a small

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At some point while I was trying to write a dissertation as a parent of a preschooler and an infant, I attended a workshop from which I remember exactly one thing: Touch Your Project Every Day. We all lead busy lives, one of the organizers explained, and it can be difficult to find long stretches of time to focus and work through such a large and... See more

You are hopelessly optimistic if you think that somehow you can have the child at the beginning of summer vacation and then send it off to childcare in September and go back to work. Housewives don’t make their small children a full-time occupation simply for lack of a more meaningful profession to engage in—they are a full-time occupation because

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