“Here she comes, running, . . . off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”
–Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Ms. Z is a freelance writer and editor, a National Board Certified English teacher, the mother of a pre-teen, and an avid runner and tennis player. She writes literary nonfiction and poetry and edits academic works, most often for her college professor husband and his colleagues as well as for international scholars who were once…
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Ms. Z is a veteran schoolteacher, a freelance writer/editor, and a full-time working mother again, after a short-lived stint as “a feminist housewife in the American South at the age of forty,” a role for which she confesses to being completely unqualified. Moving east of her Eden from the San Francisco Bay to the Appalachian…
In the Sun-Shiniest Spot You’ve Found
Do you ever step with bare feet Onto that just-right spot of the carpet, Where the sunlight has spilled its warmth So generously through the windowpanes, And find yourself wanting to just lie it all down, No matter that it’s still the middle of the day, To curl up like a cat— Or perhaps, if…
