“Here she comes, running, . . . off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”
–Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Having recently moved east of my Eden, from the Pacific Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains, south of the Mason-Dixon line from Northern California, from sixteen years of unyielding dedication to Title-I public schools to an unexpectedly early retirement, from earning a paycheck since I was fourteen-and-a-half years old and working up to three jobs in order to…
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Ms. Z is a veteran schoolteacher, a freelance writer/editor, and full-time working mother again, after accepting a supporting role at her child’s school. She recently moved from the San Francisco Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, where she is learning to live in the woods with bears as well as to enjoy the regular exercises of…
Assume Your Best Athletic Stance
When you work from 7:30 A.M.-8:45 P.M. and, on your ten-minute drive home, your car dies at the freeway off ramp, in the dark, and you haven’t had dinner yet . . . . So, you leave your hazard lights flashing, fumble around in the dark to open the hood, wave people to go around…
