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My Wife Is Home All Day Now and It’s Weird
Welcome to the new normal?
I don’t think any of us know exactly how long the current situation with COVID-19 is going to last. We knew there would be some changes to daily life, but it is still a little jarring. Like… she’s home all day now.
Take my wife, please.
Seriously, folks, having my wife work from home is weird. That said, we are adjusting well. It’s me, my wife, our three-year-old son, a dog, and a cat all cooped up in a smallish house. Chores get done. Playtime and teaching time happens. We both manage to do our jobs.
And they said it couldn’t be done.
Who’s the boss?
I’ve been a full-time freelancer for nearly eighteen years — most of the time as a book and magazine layout artist and, more recently, as a writer. I’m an old hand at working from home. So much so that I manage most of the chores, handle a good chunk of child care, and still scratch out a living writing words people read. When we were encouraged to practice self-isolation, I yawned and said, “No prob.”
My wife, on the other hand, was a little more concerned.
She’s the boss
I mean that literally. She’s the director at the agency she works for. She oversees a…
