What, Like It's Hard?
Courtney McGeeI'm Courtney, a former national news producer raising 3 girls in NYC. I write essays about motherhood, attention, technology, & the quiet cultural shifts I'm noticing. The internet changed how we live & I can't stop thinking about what happens next.
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My house is a mess. Please come over.
It’s 6:30 am on a Sunday, and not a single one of my children has figured out that weekends are for sleeping in.
I stand (hide) in the kitchen pouring my first cup of coffee while I try to force my eyes to stay open.
I feel sand beneath m...
She told me motherhood was the best thing she ever did. I didn't believe her.
My mother was a poet. A good one.
But then she had kids, and she wasn’t anymore.
Or at least, that’s what I thought.
I remember finding a stash of her notebooks filled to the brim when I was about 11 or 12, baffled by what it all meant....
The opt out edit: back to school edition
I’ll never forget the first time I heard a mother talk about how excited she was for school to start again.
The relief in her voice was palpable. ‘I can’t wait to breathe again,’ she had said.
I’ve heard this line echoed by dozens of moth...
I don’t prioritize my marriage
It’s the kind of afternoon that your body sinks into—it’s too hot to do anything else.
It was the third or fourth day of the third or fourth heat wave of the summer of 2009.
Two teenagers floated in a pool in a backyard in Queens, a daily...
We've gotten the village all wrong
Let me tell you about 67th street.
It’s a hidden little dead-end that butts up to a cemetery (there are a lot of those here in Queens). If you’ve ever flown to NYC, you probably saw it out of the corner of your eye, disappearing into the w...
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