Voices
LISA
BELKIN
HUFFINGTON
02.03.13
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What I Know About Work
Now That I’m in My 50s
BACK WHEN my older son was a
toddler, I found him in his booster
seat one morning scribbling furiously on a legal pad with a stub of
a crayon.
“Evan,” I asked, “do you want
breakfast?”
“I can’t talk, Mommy,” he answered. “I have to work or my editor will be mad with me.”
I’ve spent the decades since trying to live the balanced message
that I want my children to hear.
I’m