So proud of this feature for Juno Magazine, my first paid lifestyle byline, about the challenges of motherhood and marriage when they first butt heads.
I'm not saying I have all the answers—or any answers, for that matter—but the response I got to this article was touching. It's so clear that not enough of us talk about the issues facing new moms, not least of which are those that relate to the care, feeding, and upkeep of a new-parent partnership.
All I know is that when we do talk about subjects like this, a lot of us feel less alone. Enjoy.
It was her mother's recipe, lauded far and wide among family and friends, talked about at dinner parties, denied to others when asked. When it was time to pass the treasured recipe down there was much fanfare, the secret finally endowed to the precious chosen with obliged anticipation, the proper reverence. Yet when presented, this scrappy thing from decades prior... it revealed itself to be clearly cut from a plastic bag of Tollhouse chocolate chips. So much for proprietary.
And when her secret was discovered, there was only one thing left to do: recopy the recipe into a faded notebook, burn the evidence, and start baking legendary pies.
