'I Hate Being a Stay-At-Home Mom!'

A family is not built to keep one person thriving while everyone else suffers.

Blue and Green Music (1921) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly, 

You are a mother and an artist, and I desperately need advice from a mother and an artist right now, though I feel so far underwater that most advice sounds like muffled shouts coming from somewhere far away. 

I have a two-year-old son, and between postpartum and COVID I have been home with him e…