A case for the short story

My grandmother is well known for her saying regarding motherhood: "Sometimes all you accomplish is that your children grow a day older." There is a lot to be said for that little line of wisdom. A lot. I could make an entire blog post about it, but for today, I am using it for just one purpose : To illustrate that many women don't read because they can hardly get anything done other than survival. Life with small children is chaos, a little fact that people like to sweep under the carpet. (Yes,