News Tribune: The art of being a mom
The News Tribune online profiles four Tacoma, WA-based mothers with arts careers (a dancer, a photographer, a pianist, and a director) to explore “what it’s like to juggle two demanding passions: your children and your art. For each, patience and creativity come into play.” Says one mother:
“Being in any of the arts is all-consuming. You’re always trying do things with the music, to think about it. When I became a mother, I didn’t have that luxury to think about it all the time. My daughter was my priority now, and music started to take a back seat – and what I learned was to be more spontaneous. You have to think faster, because you have a performance in a few days and you can’t practice hours and hours anymore! It taught me to have a little more fun, not to worry about every little thing.”
An interesting take on how women in various disciplines manage life and art. You can read the full piece here. (Photo by Janet Jensen, The News Tribune.)
Studio Mothers: Life & Art 
thanks, miranda, this article is another in that long conversation of mothers work, creativity, kids, household juggling that seems to consume us.
for years i have wondered where the daddy balancing blogs, articles, segments on news tv, etc. do they even think of this stuff anywhere near the level we do?
even when some of us have supportive males in our lifes who do laundry, dishes, dinner, and watch even the kids from the other marriage (the one before we got smarter 😉 obviously i’m speaking for myself here), i think our assumption and society’s is it’s still up to us, above and beyond the job we need that our mothers didn’t.
well, i saw on gma this am, (while i nursed, ate breakfast, checked email and folded laundry hubby washed last night) that the big news was pantyhose requirements in an office where the men don’t have to wear ties.
baby steps, eh?!