Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond
Looking at this book now though, I recognize how tense early motherhood can be, because early motherhood is so demanding in terms of time. You’re often sleep deprived, and children require a lot of you. And now my kids are 8 and 12 and they come home from school and my son’s outside playing with neighbors and my daughter’s reading a book, and I suddenly have a couple of hours for thinking, where they don’t need me. And that’s delicious and not something I would have predicted when I was writing a lot of these essays. Throughout my life, if I don’t have time to devote to a creative practice, I feel that loss very viscerally. I think it’s important for people with artistic temperaments to find ways to nurture that, even in the small ways you can when you have a lot of other expectations and responsibilities.
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