I ran away. I did not lose my house. I was not in the mandatory evacuation zone. Yet, after 4 days in the smoke, living just miles away from the flames destroying my town, I left. I don’t wan’t to tell anyone that. Mine was not a story of heroism. But also, mine was not …
“Why are you so tired?” I hear my brain accusing. “You didn’t even DO what you planned to today.” Trying to think back to what I did do, I was filled with exhaustion. Never before in my life have I needed to be so flexible, about positively everything, than in these little years. The hard work of Mommyhood: …