Apples and women's work

When blessings feel like curses

In 2017, I wrote an essay about apples and labor and exhaustion. I thought a lot about this essay as I wrote my next book, This American Ex Wife. Because this essay is about the labor we can drop and the labor we can’t. It’s an essay about quitting, but also a lesson in continuing on. It’s an essay about when bounty can feel like a curse. And as we near…