- 6:00 the alarm goes off
- 15 minutes of yoga
- Shower, Shave, and Shampoo
- 7:00 wake the angry, sleepy kids
- Home-cooked breakfast
- “Where’s my shoes”
- Hair, make-up, and fighting a stuck zipper
- Carpool drop-off
- 10 hour work days
- Cook the dinner, eat the dinner, complain, clean up the dinner
- Laundry, groceries
- “I need a new Sharpie for school tomorrow”
- Run to the store, home from the store
- Kids in bed
- Deep breath, feet up, finally take off the four-inch heels
And, then I ask: “Did telling women they should have an education, career, and a family really make women’s lives better or did it just turn up the heat on the pressure cooker of life?”