A Disturbing Realization

I go to the supermarket. Again.

I walk quickly down the aisles,

not seeing what is really there.

Only what I buy every trip.

Fruit, cheese, eggs, milk, tortillas, salsa.

I know there is more here

but I can’t spare a moment

to see the variety. Different options.

There is just never enough time.

How is it that the supermarket

is now a metaphor for motherhood?

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Originally posted in March 2011

On Relationships. Or, what I was reminded of by the Ladies' Home Journal

In Which I Consider Doing a Jig