Title:
Moms don't have time to : a quarantine anthology
ISBN:
9781510765962
Physical Description:
xix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Sheltering with ghosts / The short stories I found in the sweater box / How David Sedaris is helping me get by / Wait, did I kill my book club? / The unforgettable mother-daughter relationships in fiction / Why moms really join book clubs / Read more books / A technology pioneer shuts down, weekly / Dystopian fiction is made for this moment / The books getting me through quarantine / What my father taught me / Rowing into midlife, one stroke at a time / Want to stop comparing yourself to others? Try tree pose / After my daughter died, my son took up rock climbing / I don't want to work out. I'm a Lorelai / The retro workout that changed my life / Breaking up with my kids / I finally learned to dance like nobody's watching / Racing against the coronavirus: how working out is keeping me sane / How a failed relationship made me a runner / These days, I'm running to stay sane / What locker-room talk sounds like to me / My mother says no / In Russia, luggage lost, identity found / Hey, Food Network addicts: this is our time to shine / What the Brady Bunch taught me about family dinners / There are no plans to make, so why not plan meals? / Food can hurt / It was never about the dough / In Provence, soothed by goat yogurt / What I saw at your kid's birthday party / To papayas with love / The weight of it all / Baking challah to connect / Forget date night--try date day / Here's how long it takes to have good sex / When I got coronavirus, my husband became my wife / Your orgasm could save your marriage / Yes, but not now / How to have sex with a germaphobe / What my mother taught me about sex / Don't crush my butterflies / Now's not the time / Moms don't have time to cry / The life-changing magic of letting go / My mother and me: an unrequited love story / White noise / In Vietnam, a glimpse of a new life / This little sprout of mine / In Japan, a mother and son find new balance / Lessons from my origami failures / Awake: 3:01 a.m. / Why I'm glad no one's driving right now--including me / Growing up, every day was Father's Day / Moms don't have time for the movies / Kyle and Zibby: stepfather, step right up / Next steps: a perfectionist tackles the unknown / Does my daughter miss her babysitter too much? / Postcard from the past
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Summary:
It's impossible to ignore how life has changed since COVID-19 spread across the world. People from all over quarantined and did their best to keep on going during the pandemic. Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books and a mother of four herself, wanted to do something to help people carry on and to give them something to focus on other than the horrors of their news feeds. So she launched an online magazine called We Found Time. Authors who had been on her podcast wrote original, brilliant essays for busy readers. Zibby organized these profound pieces into themes inspired by five things moms don't have time to do: eat, read, work out, breathe, and have sex. Now compiled as an anthology named Moms Don't Have Time To, these beautiful, original essays by dozens of bestselling and acclaimed authors speak to the ever-increasing demands on our time, especially during the quarantine, in a unique, literary way. Actress Evangeline Lilly writes about the importance and impact of film. Bestselling author Rene Denfeld focuses on her relationship with food after growing up homeless. Screenwriter and author Lea Carpenter and Suzanne Falter, author, speaker, and podcast host, focus on loss. New York Times bestselling authors Chris Bohjalian and Gretchen Rubin write about the importance of reading. Others write about working out, love and sex, eating and cooking, and more. Join Zibby on her journey through the winding road of quarantine and perhaps you, too, will find time.
