A Weekly Column
“Freedom is a lot weirder than anyone tells you.”
Editor’s Note
Parents. Husbands. Children. Clients. Deadlines. Expectations.
Then one day I looked around and realized nobody was checking where I was, what I was doing, or when I’d be home. Which sounds amazing until it actually happens.
Because freedom is a lot weirder than anyone tells you.
Unsupervised is my attempt to make sense of it. The plot twists, bad ideas, reinventions, adventures, mistakes, observations, and occasional moments of brilliance that happen when a woman finds herself unexpectedly free.
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— Valerie
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I wanted to start over, but first I had to finish.
— From the column
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My desire wasn’t even worth a sentence.
— I finally stopped being easy to love
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A column within the column.
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No performance. No coaching-speak. Just the real thing.
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