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Kathleen Basi
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Before my husband and I got married, we planned for me to stay home when the kids came along. As such, I had a front-row seat to the societal arguments over career versus full-time motherhood. When I began writing from home, I progressed from feeling smug and self-righteous for having chosen domestic life to feeling torn between two equally beautiful callings—like so many other mothers who have worked in a field for which they have a passion. As I write these words, my firstborn is graduating high school.
So the premise of Mary Louise Kelly's It. Goes. So. Fast. resonated instantly. Her son James is entering his final year at home and, recognizing how often she has prioritized work over family, she commits to putting family first for the time she has left. Kelly, known and beloved as an interviewer and anchor at NPR, proves herself to also be a sensitive memoirist. In these ...
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