The Software Program For Motherhood Is Impossible

Oh, Where Is The Fairy Godmother Of Explanations When You Need Her?

No Man Would Ever Use Both Hands To Hold A Cup Of Tea, Unless He Was One Day's March From The South Pole, With One Chum Dead In The Snow, Dogs All Eaten And Six Fingers About To Drop Off. And Even Then He Would Look Around The Empty Tent To Check, In Case Anybody Thought It Was Girly.

Women Run The Small Country Called Home, Millions Of Us Do It In Our Spare Time, And No One Who Doesn't Run That Small Country Really Knows What It Feels Like In The Dead Of Night When Task Lists Jitter Like Tickertape Through Your Seething Brain.

People Say That Time Is A Great Healer. Which People? What Are They Talking About? I Think Some Feelings You Experience In Your Life Are Written In Indelible Ink And The Best You Can Hope For Is That They Fade A Little Over The Years.

Children Are The Proof We've Been Here . . . They're Where We Go To When We Die. They're The Best Thing And The Most Impossible Thing, But There's Nothing Else . . . Life Is A Riddle And They Are The Answer. If There's Any Answer, It Has To Be Them.