BEING LIKE WATER
This article in the NY Daily News
I’m the mama of two very energetic, very cute, very trying little girls. I know I’m supposed to say this is my most important job in life, but I’d rather say it’s part of a greater whole — a part of the Me that is enhanced by being a mother, even a tired husk of one, not diminished by it. I’m a writer and a thinker and a woman who tried her hand at many a dream — actress, news reporter, artist, poet — and didn’t quite succeed in or follow through on any them. Until I became a mom, that is. Until I kept getting squeezed through tunnel slides and pushed over blocks and boulders. Until I finally learned to flow, throwing my hands up in the air and releasing myself into the pandemic-shaped kiddie pool where I swim today…