Archive - Mom, Interrupted

What Most Of Us Don't Understand About the Gender Pay Gap

As long as we continue to devalue caregivers, the pay gap will endure

May 14 •

A Middle-Aged Mom Seeks Her Higher Power

During a difficult season, I need somewhere else to turn

May 6 •

April 2024

Boys Can Do Everything Girls Can Do

That includes invisible and emotional labor

Apr 30 •

Where Feminists and Tradwives Can Agree

The devaluation of care work hurts us all

Apr 23 •

I Have Mixed Feelings About Asking People to Pay for My Work

On my ambivalent relationship with money – as a mother, writer, professional, and budding anticapitalist

Apr 16 •

A Sensory Sensitive Introvert Goes to Vegas

And survives to tell the tale

Apr 9 •

Are White, Middle-Class Women the Unhappiest Mothers?

We seem to be the angriest and the most vocal. Here's my theory why.

Apr 2 •

March 2024

I’m Opting Out of Ambition

At least, ambition as we typically define it

Mar 26 •

It Took Me 40 Years to Realize I Hate These 5 Things

The beauty of unapologetically opting out

Mar 20 •

As a Middle-Aged Woman, I Give Zero Fucks

I no longer aim to please

Mar 12 •

The Year I Turned 40

Reaching midlife during end times

Mar 5 •

February 2024

Bad Parents, Bad Kids

Let's unpack the judgments we're so quick to make about today's parents and their children

Feb 27 •

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