06/04/2026
The mother’s existential dilemma.
I remember looking across a sea of cubicles, and wondering where all the mothers had gone. Freelance. Part-time. Off to start their own companies, to find a better work-life balance while raising children.
Soon I’d join them. But I’d never forget.
Mothers sacrifice a lot for their kids, not least of all, often the careers they worked their whole life to build.
There’s a movement now of women pushing back. Questioning. Challenging the status quo. But back then? There was just Carmen, wondering what happened to them all, and what she would do next.
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“So, leave.”
“It’s the same thing everywhere,” Carmen says, shaking her head, and hoisting a still crying Teo on to her lap. “I’ve hit the glass ceiling. There’s nothing more I can do until the kids are grown up. I just can’t give it any more time. And my time is all they want.”
—Again, Only More Like You. In bookstores now 📚
