Proud of me

Every day I struggle with the fact that I'm a working mom. How can I possibly give my best to so many people, I think. Someone is going to be disappointed, invariably, and to be honest I just don't want it to be my kids who suffer.

But then on days like this - Commencement 2009 - I feel proud of myself, my role, my accomplishments, and I hope that one day when Zoe sees this picture she will be proud of me. Proud of the fact that her mom has a PhD and is a professor and spent that afternoon presenting doctoral students with their hoods, conferring their PhD degrees.