Our patriarchal society would dictate that my focus should be on my children, that a career can only be gravy. Our capitalist culture has me believing that the summation of a valuable life is in a checking account: what we earn, create, and monetize. But my soul argues that it’s not an either/or, that my children’s goodness should not be used as a measure of my own and that my contribution is not supposed to be so fixed.
