![]() ![]() Working in a library? Traveling the world and going on adventures? Living alone in a beautiful little house by the sea? Sure, she hurt her back, but at least she could stay in bed until she was better-while I dream of sleeping in past 7am someday, and waking up on my own (there is no way, I have found, to turn off that “mom sense” that immediately wakes up any time I hear the bathroom door open or any other suspiciously child-produced noise between the hours of 9pm and 7am). It may seem at first glance that the story of Miss Rumphius is an unlikely inspiration for a young mom in the thick of raising little children and caring for a home-after all, Miss Rumphius, as a single woman who traveled the world, might be inspiring only in the sense of fueling said young mom’s dreams of being alone and free. ![]()
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