I was told by my work that it was a privilege for me to use my breast pump in a storage closet. I sat on a folding chair with my back against an industrial trash can. The door had no locks. I was told to be grateful because my privilege could be taken away at any time, since I didn’t…
Resilient. Creative. Determined. These three words are the lessons the Great Recession taught my husband and I. We were both young college students when the recession hit, and for a couple years, that was a buffer for us. Then we graduated. We went to a small state school in the Midwest.…
And, to honor these women who came before us, we place the sacred fertile woman icon before the holy place of parking to bless every grocery store and mall, allowing us exhausted moms to have a spot near the building. Get your ass off those several seats, a pregnant woman needs to…
I had a job where my desk was in a public work space where customers would come up to me and talk to me. I had so many baby boomer moms see the photos of my baby daughter on my desk and scold me for working full time, away from her. It got so bad I would actually tear up and say the…
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