On Sunday I read an essay by Hope Edelman in the New York Times. It was about her daughter having to do a "flour sack baby" project for school. Her daughter is the same age as Zoe, and this quote was a good reminder for me:
"Eleven-year-old girls occupy a notoriously wobbly zone between childhood and adolescence. A mother who's an embarrassment in the morning can be someone to adore at dinner and a pariah again by bedtime. Yet beneath this ambivalence, girls are desperate for reminders that we love them and always will, even as they're abruptly banishing us from their rooms."
Megums...I was just browsing through your posts-about to write one myself and I noticed this. I love Hope Edelman. I just picked up her book again, after about ten years or more, "Motherless Daughters". I am amazed at how good it makes me feel to read her work. She truly gets people and life. I know she did a lot of research in writing her books. That is so cool that I saw this...her quote is a great one about teenage girls. I hope you get this comment in August on a post from last October!
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DeleteIsn't it amazing that I happened upon this post 6 years later? Almost the same date even.
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