I make fun of my dear sweet husband Nick Aster a lot on here because he is just such an easygoing guy who allows me to do such things but I wanted to give him a shoutout here.
Nick got laid off this week…not his fault, late-stage capitalism is a real bitch and we never know when it is gonna come for us.
But he wrote the greatest sign off letter to his company of all time. It was along the lines of.
Great working with everyone for four years. But I work for my wife now so could everyone order her damn book The Sicilian Inheritance!
I mean. Yes, yes and yes.
So let’s raise a glass to this man and all hope that he gets a deed in the mail to a secret family plot in Sicily so he can go solve his own mystery and sell that land.
I also bring this up because I keep getting asked in my interviews promoting the Hot Sicilian how I manage to write books and make podcasts with three children.
And the answer is that I married a man who takes on half the labor (sometimes imperfectly but he always tries) and that your husband is your glass ceiling.
Caitlin Moran coined this phrase and it is so true. I wrote about it years ago.
“If she wants children and a job, a woman’s life is only as good as the man or woman she marries,” Moran writes. “That’s the biggest truth I know. All too often women are marrying their glass ceilings.”
This, this and this. OK.
We marry our glass ceilings.
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Years ago I wrote a piece about how I trained my husband to be a dad and I just went back and looked at it….I want to share some of it with you here.
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