A Mother Who Writes – By Emmaline Swallow

By | January 26, 2025

I would love to sit down to write, sure,

but first I have to get the laundry started.

I would love to take a few minutes to plot,

but we are out of milk and I don’t know why nobody told me yesterday when I had to go to the store (no, I don’t drink milk so how would I know that?)

I also have to pick up granola, the only thing one of my children eats for breakfast.

She is going through a tough time now and is having trouble eating,

so I can’t just tell her to eat something else.

I don’t know what to cook for dinner,

but I know the next 3 titles of the essays I want to write.

I know my house is a mess, I probably should at least vacuum it.

But do tell me do people really dust every week?

Really? (chewing on my pencil absentmindedly)

A mother writes

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