Hi Katy,

 

I hope you are doing well.  Please feel free to reach out if you need anything.

 

All the best,

 

Jill Starishevsky

Author, My Body Belongs to Me

http://www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com

Katy, just returning to teaching after 10 years home at with my three kids (youngest is 4); you've made me grateful for the fact that I returned here instead of waiting another ten years. Still, it is a difficult and sad subject. I hope we can collectively shape our future to put motherhood somehow on a financial track. How many hours we've all, separately, I'm sure, devoted to "how do I stay at home and raise my children and earn money without hurting both endeavors..." Wish I had an answer. What creative paths we all end up forging. You'd think, given the value of mothering children (our future) we'd have figured something out over the centuries. But thanks for the honest look at your experience.

Hi Katy - I really, really appreciated your essay...as someone who went from full to part time 12 years ago and then - horrors - becoming a freelance writer, I've tried to keep my options open for returning to a "real" job and told myself that as long as I'm still working SOMEWHERE, I'm still marketable. I suspect your experience is a whole lot more likely. Yet I think, even so, I'd have made the same choice to be around and flexible for our two daughters. It's a nuanced subject and you've done a great job exposing the part that people (me included) would like to pretend away...

Welcome to Mother Writer Katy,! If you haven't already, feel free to introduce yourself, browse our threads, or start one of your own. And again, welcome to Mother Writer.
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Sounds wonderful, only it may need to be in Fort Collins CO. It's highly unlikely that I'll be coming to Minn. anytime soon. I checked out your writing website of articles and bookmarked it for reading in between things. It looks interesting! If you check out my blog site, feel free to leave any comments you'd like. Honest critiquing is good:~)

Hi there -- just wanted to drop by your page and invite you personally (or at least virtually) to our first-ever She Writes Chicago meetup, celebrating our first-anniversary! We are so grateful to the event's organizer, Eileen O'Halloran, for taking a risk and stepping up to host. I hope you will support her and bring yourself and other women who write (no need for them to be members) to the Chicago gathering. At the meetup writers will take part in the She Writes "Book Communion," where attendees arrive with one book, their own or another She Writers', new or gently used, and leave with another book as a meaningfully way to support one another's work. We will also be blowing out a candle and making a wish for our upcoming writing year -- along with She Writers gathering in 16 cities around the country. I hope you will be part of this historic (well, at least kind of cool) occasion, and RSVP now to Eileen here.

Hi Katy,

I wanted to connect with you and ask for your feedback. I recently did my first on-camera interview for the children's book on child sexual abuse prevention that I wrote, My Body Belongs to Me. Please let me know what you think when you have some time.

Thanks in advance.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/talking-kids-sexual-abuse-10255396

Jill Starishevsky
Author, My Body Belongs to Me
www.MyBodyBelongstoMe.com

Hello Katy! I just saw a recent post of yours on the Midwest Writers group page and thought I'd stop by and say hello. I currently reside in Eagan, MN, and am glad to have found someone so geographically close.