6/12/2023 0 Comments Girlish by Lara Lillibridge![]() ![]() As a mother myself, I see that what she was really saying was that she was exhausted-that everything rested on her shoulders and she’d just like a day without being responsible for anyone else. When I was in high school, my mother used to say, “life begins when the kids move out and the dog dies.” I didn’t care for the comment at the time. Worrying is an essential component of my parental modus operandi. I write fiction for them, I write memoir for me. I am currently writing middle grade fiction and they are actively involved in the plot development and character arcs of those books. They will only understand Only Mama after they have children of their own. ![]() I tell my children that Mama, Mama, Only Mama, like my previous memoir, Girl ish, was written for grown-ups. I’ve been asked more times than I can count, “aren’t you afraid your children will read your book?” Children matter, and parenting matters, and mothers are still women with needs of their own. Not writing about it seemed to nullify its significance. Yet, raising children has been the single most important thing in my life. At the very beginning of my writing career I sat in a memoir workshop and listened to writers argue about the ethics of writing about children. ![]() Memoir is a hard beast for family to live with just ask my mother. ![]() I wrote in the beginning of Mama, Mama, Only Mama , ![]()
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