I am picking up this blog to document my journey back to health. This is my reboot. A lot has changed in five years. My original opening in 2012 was this:
This fall I sent my eldest child to college while preparing to send the next, following just 21 months behind. And I have a third child I am preparing for kindergarten. Despite all my railing against being defined by my status as a wife and mother, these are the most defining facts of my life. Getting married and being fertile is not all that I have been, however. I am a published author. I have a PhD in English because I thought it was a safe field and because I thought a woman married to an artist–print maker and sculptor–needed to have a profession that would always be valued. Ha! I should say that again: Ha!
So this is me, Valerie, introducing myself in this inaugural Sea Notes blog–mother, wife, author, and teacher with the audacity to believe that God still Loves Women and writers.
This post first appeared on Presenting Evidence That God Still Loves Women And Writers, please read the originial post: here
