What Is a Mother Allowed to Write?

It's 5:00 AM and I'm writing in a corner of our bedroom that I've cordoned off with a curtain. Like many aspects of my postpartum life, my new space feels scotch-taped together.

What Is a Mother Allowed to Write?

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It's 5:00 AM and I'm writing in a corner of our bedroom that I've cordoned off with a curtain.

Like many aspects of my postpartum life, my new space feels scotch-taped together.

My desk, a thrifted school desk, is cute but so small […] The post.

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It's 5:00 AM and I'm writing in a corner of our bedroom that I've cordoned off with a curtain. Like many aspects of my postpartum life, my new space feels scotch-taped together. My desk, a thrifted school desk, is cute but so small […] The post.

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