This is so great and wise. I had a long and hazy comedian / comedy producer life before my current life as mom and while not the same (far less drugs and rock and roll and more nerds being bad-ish) I can totally relate. Thanks for it.
I love this piece. I too had a wild decade filled with parties but also solo travel which I loved more than anything. I still travel for work but the cost is as you describe: even when I can be away from my kids, I don’t want to be. It’s a strange new calculus.
Oh man the travel thing is so real. I do a fair bit of travel writing and because of that, I'm constantly being bombarded by PR specialists, offering to send me on insane trips to this place or that. If I was doing this work before kids, I would never say 'no.' But these days, I rarely say yes to those trips. They have to be something really, really special for my to take that kind of time away from my family.
This is so great and wise. I had a long and hazy comedian / comedy producer life before my current life as mom and while not the same (far less drugs and rock and roll and more nerds being bad-ish) I can totally relate. Thanks for it.
That was then, this is now. Both are perfect.
… and early 40s
rare as they are these days, these 40s hangovers are no joke... you did miraculous work, my friend.
I love this piece. I too had a wild decade filled with parties but also solo travel which I loved more than anything. I still travel for work but the cost is as you describe: even when I can be away from my kids, I don’t want to be. It’s a strange new calculus.
Oh man the travel thing is so real. I do a fair bit of travel writing and because of that, I'm constantly being bombarded by PR specialists, offering to send me on insane trips to this place or that. If I was doing this work before kids, I would never say 'no.' But these days, I rarely say yes to those trips. They have to be something really, really special for my to take that kind of time away from my family.