The Long Way Home
"You're going to be a terrible mother," she said to me. I was a young teacher and obviously not yet a mother when I caught this comment. The woman who threw it was making a joke, I suppose, and what she was reacting to was my wobbly feelings about motherhood. It wasn't that I didn't love children or that I had made a decision about having them or not. It was that I had just begun teaching, something I had wanted to do for as long as I could remember. I was itching to dive de
