I am picking up this blog to document my journey back to health. This is my reboot. A lot has changed in five years. My original opening in 2012 was this:
This fall I sent my eldest child to college while preparing to send the next, following just 21 months behind. And I have a third child I am preparing for kindergarten. Despite all my railing against being defined by my status as a wife and mother, these are the most defining facts of my life. Getting married and being fertile is not all that I have been, however. I am a published author. I have a PhD in English because I thought it was a safe field and because I thought a woman married to an artist–print maker and sculptor–needed to have a profession that would always be valued. Ha! I should say that again: Ha!
So this is me, Valerie, introducing myself in this inaugural Sea Notes blog–mother, wife, author, and teacher with the audacity to believe that God still loves women and writers.
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