Delightfully Difficult
Essays on motherhood, midlife, and public policy with an eye towards shaking up the status quo.
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Diesel prices are at a record high - here's why that matters for moms of school-aged kids (opens the original)
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Diesel prices are at a record high and, once again, those impacts will land squarely in the laps of American mothers.In many ways, we’re already there. Even before we started throwing away countless dollars in the form of contaminated berries and frozen popsicles with possible glass fragments, grocery prices were rising and women were twice as likely to be solely responsible for the grocery shopping and meal preparation than men.1 These finan
No Mercy: How being a pregnant lawmaker shifted my perspective on supporting moms in office (opens the original)
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The 'but it's not that bad' marriage (opens the original)
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