Stimulus package aims to get mothers back to work 03:38
Tess Taylor is the author of the poetry collections Work & Days, The Forage House and most recently, Rift Zone and Last West: Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange. Views expressed in this commentary are solely hers. Read more opinion articles on CNN. (CNN)If you are a parent like me, the last 14 months almost broke you.
This time last year we were well into a pandemic, already exhausted (especially if we were the mothers of small children) and heartbroken. If we were lucky, we waved to our own mothers on Mother s Day, gingerly and from a distance. If you re like me, you spent last Mother s Day crying, because you missed your own mother and because being a mother had become intensely hard beyond any imagining and there seemed to be no end in sight to the guilt, to the too muchness of everything.