Role Reboot

Letting Go Of Trying To Be Perfect

Perfection is the archenemy of productivity and happiness. For many years, I wrote mostly in my head. I might spend an entire day or even a week formulating a single sentence, turning the words over in my mind like agates in a tumbler until they came out gleaming and smooth, ready at last to be committed to […]

What Does It Mean To Be A ‘Good Woman’?

Be beautiful, be sexy, be active, be nurturing, be domestic, be focused on everyone else, and by God, make it all look effortless. What is a good woman? What constitutes goodness and who is the arbiter of the standards that would indicate goodness? If women take their cues about how to “be,” either good or […]