The story Nora Roberts likes to tell of her transformation from harried homemaker to
published novelist reads like something from one of her novels:
Stuck at home with her two young sons during a 1979 snowstorm,
the Silver Spring native started writing longhand,
and the epiphany hit:
“ ‘This is it . This is the thing I am meant to do.’
Nora Roberts @ WP
published novelist reads like something from one of her novels:
Stuck at home with her two young sons during a 1979 snowstorm,
the Silver Spring native started writing longhand,
and the epiphany hit:
“ ‘This is it . This is the thing I am meant to do.’
Nora Roberts @ WP
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By Melchisedek ABAKA [CC BY-SA 4.0
(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons47
Why Having a Fulfilling Career Makes Me a Better Mother
Before I became a mother, I was a woman with my own dreams, ambitions, and creative desires, just like anyone else. Then when my son was born, the role of motherhood was thrust upon me and all of a sudden I had two new identities to cater to, but how would I manage both without sacrificing one for the other?
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She needed this job.
Not just for the salary—and it was generous—but for the structure,
for the challenge, for the doing. Doing more, she knew, than circling the wheel
she'd fallen into back home.
Not just for the salary—and it was generous—but for the structure,
for the challenge, for the doing. Doing more, she knew, than circling the wheel
she'd fallen into back home.
She needed a life, something more than clocking time, drawing a paycheck
that would be soaked up by bills.
She needed, however self-help-book it sounded,
something that fulfilled and challenged her.
that would be soaked up by bills.
She needed, however self-help-book it sounded,
something that fulfilled and challenged her.
Blue Dahlia