Broken Dreams

I'm gonna go back a little bit, sense this is an open topic blog, to Sanders and how his biggest point was that all writers live single, isolated lives. I was looking through the newspaper a couple days ago and found an article of a woman who has recently died. The title is Wanted to be writer but chose to be mom. The article is Catherine Rooney Sullivan who, like the title suggests, gave up her dream in a career as a writer and editor to raise a family. This got me thinking about the piece that we read by Sanders. I questioned why she would give up her dreams. I have always been taught to chase my dreams and never give up on them. Although, I like that she became a mother, I think she still could have pursued her dream to be a writer. It may have been more difficult writing with six children running around the house but I believe it could have been done, who knows maybe her children could have inspired something brilliant. All she needed was some place to sit and be alone to write, not necessarily a room of her own but a quiet place.