This interview was the reason I started my substack. It was by far the most thoughtful and generous interview I have ever done in my life and seeing it in my inbox this morning made me want to jump through the screen and hug you. Thank you for your reposting it. And thank you for being everything you are. ❤️🔥
You had me at "Even in our most intimate moments, we often follow social scripts we have inherited." Thanks for re-sharing, I am adding her book to be TBR list. I'm writing my own book and struggling with the urge to be "palatable" so I think my brain might need it...
Thank you for sharing, I did miss this interview because I didn’t read much on substack until the early 2023! I love this, I didn’t break any plates during pandemic but I did have a breakdown about peaches on the floor in front of my then 3.5 and 1 year old and then sent them back to daycare literally the next week. My kids are still young but one of my favorite memories with my 7 yo was letting him read my journal I wrote at 14 (I read it first!) he loved learning about me more as a teenager and what I was like long before I became a wife and mother. He wrote in my Mother’s Day present book that he loved to talk to me about my ex-boyfriends.
Lots of thoughts enter my “me too” old lady brain as yesterday I celebrated 48 years being married. A horrible text came from my 45-yo daughter who has had mental & emotional issues her entire life to keep me grasping for answers from any mother/daughter relationship book for how to make it better. Not sure what I might glean from or contribute to this conversation, but I’m hopeful after taking part in Amanda’s Iowa Summer Writing Festival workshop that I will find satisfaction through my Substack “She’s a caution” essays.
This interview was the reason I started my substack. It was by far the most thoughtful and generous interview I have ever done in my life and seeing it in my inbox this morning made me want to jump through the screen and hug you. Thank you for your reposting it. And thank you for being everything you are. ❤️🔥
I’ll be thinking about “I’ve only ever fucked like a mom” for a long time
You had me at "Even in our most intimate moments, we often follow social scripts we have inherited." Thanks for re-sharing, I am adding her book to be TBR list. I'm writing my own book and struggling with the urge to be "palatable" so I think my brain might need it...
Thank you for sharing, I did miss this interview because I didn’t read much on substack until the early 2023! I love this, I didn’t break any plates during pandemic but I did have a breakdown about peaches on the floor in front of my then 3.5 and 1 year old and then sent them back to daycare literally the next week. My kids are still young but one of my favorite memories with my 7 yo was letting him read my journal I wrote at 14 (I read it first!) he loved learning about me more as a teenager and what I was like long before I became a wife and mother. He wrote in my Mother’s Day present book that he loved to talk to me about my ex-boyfriends.
Lots of thoughts enter my “me too” old lady brain as yesterday I celebrated 48 years being married. A horrible text came from my 45-yo daughter who has had mental & emotional issues her entire life to keep me grasping for answers from any mother/daughter relationship book for how to make it better. Not sure what I might glean from or contribute to this conversation, but I’m hopeful after taking part in Amanda’s Iowa Summer Writing Festival workshop that I will find satisfaction through my Substack “She’s a caution” essays.