The Push and Pull of Motherhood

Lisa Sadikman essays

My three girls are always so close to me, following me from kitchen to bathroom and back, circling me as I clean or write or cook. They need to tell me about school, about what so-and-so said or didn’t say, about what princesses wear to bed.

A Birthday Cake Shaped Space

Lisa Sadikman Stay at Home Parent

I still straddle that line between home and the world, between living in the permeable skin of motherhood and the tighter, more intimate skin of the woman I am beyond my children and also because of them.