Home alone with a wakeful newborn, I could shower so quickly that the mirror didn't fog and the backs of my knees stayed dry. The one-minute hair conditioner was too slow for me.
There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three wee… - Marni Jackson
There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped having ear infections every three wee…
- Marni Jackson
Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain? - Marni Jackson
Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with a… - Marni Jackson
This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with a…
I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives. - Marni Jackson
I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.
At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment. - Marni Jackson
At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.
Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?… - Marni Jackson
Housework hassles go on, are never resolved, and will probably extend into the afterlife ('Why am I the one who takes the clouds to the dry cleaners?…
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. - Marni Jackson
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there.
The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick. - Marni Jackson
The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.
When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mo… - Marni Jackson
When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mo…
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