Seeding the Garden
Thank you, Hedgebrook, for the hollyhocks in my garden, and the Hedgebrook sisters in my email box, and the space to write and rewrite and have a manuscript to send out into the world today. These flowers are for you.
Thank you
Thank you everyone who has reached out to me recently. I wish I could respond to each comment individually. Your stories range widely, but I am most grateful to you who have taken the time to detail your own experiences and thoughts about motherhood and womanhood and the variety of choices we make. I firmly believe it is important for us to find a place where one size does not have to fit all, and to formulate our families however we need to to make sure the kids are loved, supported, healthy and whole, and that the adults are too.
We are all unique. It’s a big world. And with the reality that half of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, in the face of that personal struggle and sadness, we need to be allowed to find the best way forward for all concerned.
When Hiroshima in the Morning first came out, people everywhere gave me their stories, at readings, in taxi cabs. You are still sharing. Thank you.