Beyond FINAL: The Many Faces of Parenting Well

Finally, Literary Mama’s e-mail announcing its current issue featured this terrific, memorable quote from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: “If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much.” This reminds me not only of John Elder Robison’s sweet stories of the Sunday adventures he’d take his son on, but of some wonderful feedback from one of the literary mamas at The Writers’ Group, who recently noted in response to one of my comments, “I think it’s safe to say for each of us that in terms of balance, our families come first and then the writing…but because we need to write, we find a way.” Amen.