and more worrying about being a good mom to her kids. "I knew I didn’t look the same as I did before, but had I actually let myself go?" she wrote in the post. "Ten extra lbs and a messy bun ...

At one point, the author being feted—a well-known magazine writer and National Book Award finalist—happened upon a mom in the kitchen ... is the sign of a wasted life, truly”—my day ...