Gah, so much great stuff in here. Felt this bit in my bones: "She [the babysitter] was very well prepared, but she was worried that she wasn't going to be, that working for us wasn’t going to be good on the resume, right?" Love the conversation around solitude too. Totally agree re: "solitude is not a preferable state to togetherness or companionship. It's not that I long to flee my family forevermore. It's that it's part and parcel of the whole..." Book cover gets an A+ too.
This conversation resonated so much... as a mother of a 1 and 4 year old, and a writer who also writes about motherhood! Thank you for this, and also just going to echo the desperate need for solitude!!
Gah, so much great stuff in here. Felt this bit in my bones: "She [the babysitter] was very well prepared, but she was worried that she wasn't going to be, that working for us wasn’t going to be good on the resume, right?" Love the conversation around solitude too. Totally agree re: "solitude is not a preferable state to togetherness or companionship. It's not that I long to flee my family forevermore. It's that it's part and parcel of the whole..." Book cover gets an A+ too.
Oh my gosh, yes—the conversation about solitude! My kids are now grown and I still crave this alone time like nothing else.
This conversation resonated so much... as a mother of a 1 and 4 year old, and a writer who also writes about motherhood! Thank you for this, and also just going to echo the desperate need for solitude!!