Obviously, nobody chooses not to have kids because they'd rather sleep in late. It's a very visceral decision, and it's a complicated decision.
From Meghan Daum
Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.
What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
It is important for children to grow up in a world where there are all kinds of adults and role models around them, for them to know it's not just parents and people who are parents that care about them, but that there are people who are living other kinds of lives.
It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.
This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.
Handwriting challenges aside, I love paper cards. I love the endless stewing involved in picking them out at the store. I love buying holiday stamps at the post office, and I love that 'whoosh' sound the cards make when I drop them into the mail slot.
I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.
We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.
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