Writer Moms: Can We Do Deep Work While the Kids are Home?

Maybe not. But that doesn’t mean we’re shallow.

Sara Bates

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Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash

Ihad just finished wiping my four year old daughter’s bum when I noticed a slip of paper on the floor next to the toilet. A library receipt for Cal Newport’s book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, which I’d returned several months before. On the back of the…

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Sara Bates

Functioning Perfectionist. Library Enthusiast. Recovering Lawyer. Stay-at-Home Mom. Not so patiently writing my first novel from five to seven each morning.