Margot Parmenter 5/21/21 Margot Parmenter 5/21/21

I Don’t Want to Be Claire Dederer’s “Poser”

Dispensing with role-playing may be, I think after reading Dederer’s book, necessary to becoming a fully realized adult. And if I am to become a mother, as “a fully realized adult” is the only way I want to do it.

Margot Parmenter 5/2/21 Margot Parmenter 5/2/21

Claire Dederer’s Selfish Sacraments

Maybe, in the end, all mothers are monsters. Maybe the only way to avoid becoming monstrous is to forgo motherhood entirely.

Margot Parmenter 4/30/21 Margot Parmenter 4/30/21

Rivka Galchen’s Restful Worship

The problem isn’t and never has been motherhood itself. The problem has always been me—my fragile focus, so easily shattered; my delicate ambition, easily spooked but not as easily relinquished.

Margot Parmenter 4/18/21 Margot Parmenter 4/18/21

Meghan Daum’s “Central Sadness”

If in the future I find myself sometimes lonely and aimless, empty in an undefinable way, will I be able to talk about it without the question of children coming up?