One of the reasons that the land of Blogs attracts me is that there are so many women populating and propagating this little world. Into this mix I would like to add my voice as a mother and an artist. Not that I have any particular insight into anything - really - but I can describe my overwhelming struggle in the attempt to have some success at each. A struggle which I imagine to be fairly common among women who have children and a career. While I envy the single and the couple, at the same time I adore my cyborg child.

Of late I have dwelled in the land of PDF. An area dominated by men. It's not just about being a woman in a man's world, but being a married person in a single world, a mother in a childless world. The technological world - that is... There is really no way to to compete or keep up - when your priorities must lie elsewhere, when you have to walk away from the computer to pick someone up from preschool or deliver them to an appointment. Moments of concentration are grabbed here and there - it takes an enormous amount of practice to be able to go from concentrated moment to interruption and back.

I can't keep up. With anything. I am tempted to stop trying. Altogether.

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