A Modern Life of a Woman on #IWD

Yesterday on International Women's Day, I was being a woman. In the morning I had a Board meeting at one of my children's' schools, then I had to race to a different town to preside over a community meeting which I was Chairing about solutions for local homelessness. Then I rushed home for an interview with the local newspaper for some of the volunteer work I do in our town and then, had just enough time to eat something, write something, answer a few emails and then head off to pick up kids and tend to after school activities.

The next few hours were dedicated to bad-ass driving across town to get my kids from soccer to swim, and back to pick up from skateboarding, grab a to-go snack and head out again to fill up the car with kids coming back, sweaty and wet, from competitive sports, along with a few friends that needed rides. When I got home, I combined some fresh cooking with some left overs from the night before, and called it a nutritious, "be-grateful" dinner. Then it was off to homework assignments, tests to study for, and a little TV to watch the primary results come in - and have the inevitable family talk about values, politics, ideology and the surprising candidacy of Donald Trump.

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