“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.” ~ Robert Frost

While I tend to leave my past behind remarkably easily (I have no life-long friends and have only maintained one friendship from high school) I don’t tend to be a risk taker. When you think of someone who trots from one phase of life to the next with no real ties to her past, you [...]

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“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.” ~ Bill Cosby

As I face motherhood and joblessness simultaneously, I can’t help but be plagued by money matters to weighing heavily on my mind. Babies are expensive, and there’s no deferring payments on them.  I just keep thinking that for the next 18 years of this kid’s life, I’m paying to feed it, clothe it, entertain it, [...]

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