gender roles – The Oracle of Z

OMG Mother’s Day, again

A childhood friend of mine lost her mother to covid this year. I used to spend many weekend nights over at their house when I was in middle school. Her mother was always gracious and supportive of this odd, heathen child who said strange things at her dinner table. All day yesterday my idle mindContinue reading “OMG Mother’s Day, again”

Sylvia Plath and Parenting

OR, Toward an Equity of Selfishness I’m not well suited to the realities of parenthood. Parenting, especially for the female presenting parent – the mother – is a fairly consuming process. Children need and want things and parent needs and wants come second. I have a more artistic, erratic and fluid sense of my ownContinue reading “Sylvia Plath and Parenting”