When Mother's Day Feels Hard
How to cope with a day that's often filled with pressure, sadness, and performance.
If you’ve followed my work over the past 5ish years, you know I’ve been outspoken in my writing for The New York Times about how terribly our society treats mothers and my own ambivalence about motherhood.
This year is the first Mother’s Day in which I have an actual child I’m responsible for (technically, I guess an almost toddler? M…