The Job Called Mom and Other Essays

Humorous but truth-filled essays about parenting. EXCERPT (See sample for more) When I think back to my experience with sex education, what I remember most is parents and teachers telling us over and over: don’t sleep with anyone until you are married. If you do, you’ll probably end up pregnant and ruin your life. Given the hammered quality of this message, it would seem reasonable to conclude, as I think most of us do, that it is really easy to conceive...So in our early thirties, when my husband Jim and I started trying to have kids, we figured we had a year of childless fun left, tops...We planned a last hurrah trip to Costa Rica, stopped filling the birth control prescription and figured we’d be knocked up by the time the flight landed back home... Six months later, we realized that we’d been totally duped.