With grace and humour, she immerses the reader in Kate's psychological disorientation – insomnia, reliance on self-help books, and juggling her children, job and sanity.
The Soccer Mom, smug in her Volvo and oversized suburban house, was a wonderful creature, juggling children, job and household chores, and still having time to pronounce on the great affairs of the day.
Half of your mind is always off checking your inbox, worrying about your children, job or personality, or thinking about the thousands of things you intend to do in the future (learn Spanish, get fit, take the quiche out of the oven, and so on).
In the same building that houses the shelter, lawyers work to establish protective measures and push cases forward, therapists talk with women and their children, job training is offered, and small no-interest loans assist with tools for work, such as sewing machines.
By the time the dust settles, heartbreak, loss, pain and suffering explode all over the place, the consequences of which hurt friends, families, children, job performance and many times, each other.
And see, whether that's the reason... Or, or... Wife, children, job, I don't know.
Most have husbands, children, jobs and aging parents.
The elder three, married or otherwise partnered off, favour their children, jobs and holiday plans.
That's sensible, middle-aged women with children, jobs, commitments and responsibilities.
But they behaved as one would expect long-lost cousins to behave, hugging and kissing and sharing stories about children, jobs, golf and family trees.
They often have trouble containing their complicated lives -- husbands, children, jobs, volunteer work, setbacks, failures, illness, death -- within the essay's allotted length.
