The Mom Stop column: Working moms juggle tasks as home becomes office
Lydia Seabol Avant
Columns share an author’s personal perspective.
As I write this, I’m sitting at my home office, the desk and computer that has become my mainstay through most of my working hours during the week and increasingly at night and on the weekends, too.
Save except when I’m picking the kids up from school, or helping them with their homework, trying to put in a load of laundry, pulling the dogs away from the door when UPS arrives, or one of the 1,001 other duties one must accomplish when working from home with kids. Life is easier now that the kids are back in school, at least four days a week. But it’s nowhere near stress-free, as I juggle my full-time day job of editing a magazine and teaching college students, all while being a mom of three kids, ages 5, 9 and 11.
Ed Symkus
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You are going to love this or you are going to turn it off, 15 minutes in, after or during a spell of head scratching. There will be no middle ground.
To sum up, it’s an unusual movie.
But, let’s jump to the beginning. A narrator (Thomas Sadoski) is talking about the time someone was in his (the narrator’s) attic with his (the narrator’s) Saint Bernard, when the dog fell through the floor and landed on the kitchen table. And there, onscreen, standing in the kitchen is a man known only as The Kid (Jake Robinson). The dog is next to him, and he’s fine.