“As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to meetings and stopped beating myself up because I wasn't making a ton of money writing for some stupid sitcom, I felt really at home.” WritingKindHomeHappensFeltStupidMeetingsAcceptedSitcom Author:Meghan Daum
“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.” FeelsFirstsKindBookDoneWantedFormTermBearsMarkMemoirElsewhereEssaysBest WorkPublicationEssayists Author:Meghan Daum
“As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't.” ThinkingNeedsKindChildrenKidsHateFeltTermSubjectsConversationAuthorityI HateSuperficialPorsche Author:Meghan Daum
“I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town that's a "great places to raise kids" - that's basically code for "there are no adults here who are not parents." I had a few teachers who were kind of weirdo drama teachers and were hugely influential.” KindKidsParentTeacherGrewDramaGrew UpAdultsTownsRaisesCodeFortyInfluentialWeirdo Author:Meghan Daum
