The Second Shift is Still Mine
Since the pandemic hit, I have been working from home a whole lot more. Well, no. What’s new is me working from home, full stop. Before Covid-19 stopped the world in its tracks, I worked from one of my firm’s 4 offices for every single day of the working...
Lockdown, and living in the literal moment
Back in March, when it became obvious that something drastic would have to happen to slow the rampage of Covid-19 through the country, I thought that a lockdown would be literally end of days. I was dreading it. I’m not a person who likes to be indoors or anywhere...
A lack of contentment in my 30s
Sometimes I think that when I got pregnant at 17 I pressed pause on my brain. I think that I was on some kind of autopilot through the studying and the parenting and the first years of being married. I don’t mean that I wasn’t present, not that I...
Teen mum: fitting in, at last
It’s a wryly funny and notable thing that sometimes, within a phase of my life, I have become suddenly and almost poignantly aware that I am living through a time that will become one of my best memories. I don’t mean a day or a week, like a wedding...