Tiffany Palisi
Published: 2004-06
Total Pages: 148
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Tiffany Palisi, the force behind "Loving Mama: Essays on Natural Parenthood and Mothering," writes in this second collection of essays about the struggle to make parenting choices heard. Her decision to become a stay-at-home mom resulted from a miscarriage that changed the course of her life, and she examines one of the most basic roles a human can fulfill, motherhood, as the nexus of decisions facing women today. "The truth is," she writes, "something about being a stay-at-home makes the job seem at once both luxurious and trite." These essays chronicle the life that her decision gave her. Through the eyes of one stay-at-home mother, she reestablishes motherhood as rewarding work--even without the 401(k) plans, the company of colleagues, or medical benefits--and expresses her choice not as an interruption in her life, but as a celebration of it.