Welcome to season 2 of Notes from That Writer (Mom). In this episode, Andrea shares what’s ahead: more creative nonfiction essays about writing and motherhood and - new! - honest conversations with other writer-moms about creativity, caregiving, and the ever-evolving landscape of making art while raising children. This is a season about ambition, exhaustion, devotion, doubt, and learning how to honour more than one version of yourself at once.

In this episode, Andrea looks back at the first season of That Writer (Mom)— what sparked this project, how a quiet writing endeavour became public creative practice, and what feels important when sustaining a creative practice inside constant interruption. This is a literary reflection on voice, identity, and the quiet insistence of creative work inside a very busy life. Season One isn’t just a collection of essays. It is an excavation of language, of selfhood, of what it means to keep writing while being called to, needed by, and loved wholly by the little humans in your life.

In this episode, Andrea explores the hidden math of motherhood— not the viral kind, but the quiet cause-and-effect calculations behind every small decision. A reflection on creativity, rigidity, the split-screen of writing while mothering, and what it costs to choose yourself.