Reimagining the Self Again... and AGAIN

The one about meeting all the benchmarks, doing all the things and ending up alone, by myself... hoping to get to the “reason” I was never able to have kids... and relief from THE VOID.

I never wanted a career, really. I wanted to be a mom.

I wanted to have a family and I wanted my kids to be involved in my daily, creative life. Sure, there were things I wanted to do, and maybe it seems small, but I never really imagined a life beyond THAT… and when that didn’t happen, I was forced to reimagine a life for myself over and over… and over…