P.S. Jill ...
In 2011, I wrote a blog post called " I Feel Like an Apathetic Piece of Poo " in which I complained that I didn't feel like I was doing enough with myself. At that point, I was primarily a stay-at-home mom, banging out a few freelance articles here and there when I could find work — and I felt so ... useless. So behind. (In hindsight, I can no longer even fathom managing all the things I was managing at the time, but try telling that to 2011 me). And then, a couple years later, Jill Smokler came a-knockin' at my virtual door, and changed the trajectory of my entire life. I was fully aware of Jill prior to that, of course; when I first encountered her in the blogosphere, her site — Scary Mommy — was still just a blog, like mine. (I say "like mine," but hers was far bigger and more popular, obviously.) She was one of the bloggers I aspired to be like. She was honest and funny, and made moms feel not so alone in the chaos of everyday life. In June of 2014, ...
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