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Are Single Moms Better Off Than Married Moms?

3 days ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

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Banish Your Mirrors - Interruption #16

1 week ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

Whenever I travel, I spend a disproportionate amount of time looking into mirrors. That’s because the mirrors at hotels and AirBnbs are often positioned under higher-wattage lighting than my dim bathroom bulb at home, and they often show me angles of myself that I’m not used to looking at. It doesn’t particularly please me, gazing into new mirrors.
The Season of Hard — Interruption #15

1 week ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

It’s cliché, I know, to wax poetic about the springtime. But in Portland, Oregon, it’s difficult not to. On a still, sunny day, the multilayered hues of green are so intense, I almost have to avert my eyes. The air positively vibrates with color and fragrance. People here complain about the rain. But these sunny spring days are our payoff, and I wouldn’t trade them for anything.
There Is No Such Thing As a Casual Divorce

2 weeks ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

To hear some people talk, you might think that women these days are getting divorced all willy-nilly. We’re jumping on the divorce bandwagon because it’s trendy. We’re breaking up families and telling our partners to get lost because we just don’t feel like working on our marriages. We have no respect for our wedding vows, we can’t be trusted, and we don’t value commitment. Well.
Solvable Problems — Interruption #14

3 weeks ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

For months now, I’ve been wanting to hire a carpet cleaner. The finished basement room where I sleep, work, and write has wall-to-wall carpet, which was starting look, well, kind of gross. But it was one of those things I could never seem to prioritize in the midst of the dozens (hundreds?) of other things that demanded my money and attention. Finally, last week, I just got it done. Found a recommendation, booked an appointment, and someone came in in the next day.
The Power of Small - Interruption #13

3 weeks ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

I have always appreciated small things. Not necessarily the “small things in life” (though I appreciate those, too) but small spaces, small businesses, small towns. I’ve lived in small houses for my entire life, driven small cars, and sought out urban neighborhoods with a small-town feel. Honestly, most things are so much better when they’re small. Which is ironic, because I live in a country that worships BIG. We like BIG houses, BIG cars, BIG cities.
Should Feminists Care About Male Suffering?

1 month ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor |Richard Reeves

Men, I’ve heard, aren’t doing too well. They are lonely. They are depressed. They are underemployed, undereducated, and underloved. As a woman, I have empathy for male suffering because I have empathy for all human suffering. Yes, suffering is part of life, but I’m of the humble opinion that we are all doing far too much of it, particularly considering how many resources and how much knowledge we have at our disposal.
Sick in Bed — Interruption #12

1 month ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

I got sick last week. I hate getting sick. It’s not just that I don’t like feeling crappy—who does?—but I hate losing all the rituals and routines (some might call them vices) that provide the scaffolding to my days. My morning coffee. My afternoon beer. My evening cigarette. Without these little rewards, my days feel unmoored. As soon as I started coug…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Mom, Interrupted to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
A Year Without Romantic Intimacy

1 month ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

Somehow it’s already April. And yes, I know, people are always making inane comments like, “Can you believe it’s almost/already [insert name of month]?”But April carries special significance for me this year. It marks a strange anniversary — 12 months since separating from my soon-to-be ex-husband. We were married for 15 years and before that, we’d dated for five.
The Lost Art of Anticipation - Interruption #10

1 month ago | keralataylor.substack.com | Kerala Taylor

“SIX DAYS?”I had instructed my son to try to find the keyboard he so desperately wanted somewhere else besides Amazon because I am mostly not ordering things from Amazon anymore. Except for sometimes, like when I need something sooner than, say, six days from now.