The Deja Vu Feeling of the Tanking Economy

Arts and crafts, family economics, and bagworms

Photo by Angèle Kamp on Unsplash

With the Coronavirus upending people’s work lives, I was reminded of the period in 2008, when our family also faced a lot of economic uncertainty. Here is a piece I wrote then, as I had started to job-hunt after just three months as a stay-at-home mother.

My six-year-old son Jack…