To Mom, Or Not To Mom

Solana Joy
The Homesick Society
7 min readMar 14, 2021

The leap from not-mom to mom is a terrifying one for some of us. But I am glad I made it.

One of life’s great moments of truth.

Throughout my teens and twenties, I was convinced I would never have children. For lots of reasons; the primary one being that I just had no interest. No desire. And I knew what desire felt like. I had very strong desires in the realms of important things like jobs, boyfriends, travel, and cats. The thought of kittens, specific or…

Solana Joy
The Homesick Society

Writer. Rambler. Mother. Creature. Alaskan. Expat.