Role Reboot

Raising A Child When You Have No Village

The more alone you are in parenthood, the more alone you are in parenting. One hundred years ago you’d have a child surrounded by other women: your mother, her mother, sisters, cousins, sisters-in-law, mother-in-law. And you’d be a teenager, too young to have had any kind of life yourself. You’d share childcare with a raft […]

How My Extended Family Made A Fractured Thanksgiving Whole

We can’t control when people shift, change, or vanish from our lives entirely. But when we are open enough to let the right people support us, we can build our own families from the ground up. Margaret Atwood once wrote that divorce is like an amputation. You survive it, but there’s less of you. When […]