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recently had the good fortune to
leave full-time employment so I
could spend more time with my
young children. I'll still be writing
and editing The AppleTree, only
now I work on it at night in our
home, when Adina, Yitz and Talya
are asleep.
It requires so many things to make
this successful: a sympathetic and
accommodating
employer; a spouse
willing to increase his
work load; a lot of
organization and flexi-
bility on my part. But
I've been at it two
weeks now, and it's
wonderful. I cannot
tell you how lucky I
feel.
In the morning I no
longer hold a baby,
prepare school lunch-
es and comb my hair
at the same moment,
then rush out the door
and grab breakfast — a Dr. Pepper
and a granola bar — from the 7-
1 1. Now, I concentrate on getting
the children ready for their day.
There are few battles, and I am a
great deal more pleasant.
After the children are gone I have
a leisurely cup of coffee and do all
those typical housewife things like
make the beds, put in a load of
laundry, sweep the floor. At 10
a.m., Talya usually takes a nap and
I, awake much of the night as I
nurse her, often do the same. Or
maybe I'll catch "The Waltons,"
always one of my favorite TV series.
When I was young I could never
have imagined finding satisfaction
in what I arrogantly regarded such
mundane chores as fixing school
lunches and washing my children's
clothing. I wanted to be living a
fast-paced life in New York City,
mingling with Important People,
making a lot of money.
And then I became a journalist,
and I loved it. Good reporting
takes your breath away; it means
peeling away at all the layers of
lies and deceit, uncovering hidden
treasures, and giving words to the
formless, the unspoken. What a
privilege it was for me to be able to
walk into someone's life for a day
and ask anything and see every-
thing, and then tell that story. After
an interview, I would craft a story
like a surgeon — cutting here, fine-
tuning there, measuring every
phrase. The printed
word has such
immense power, I
know, and I did not
want to get it wrong H,
One time, a woman
a Holocaust survivor,
asked if she could
see her story before it
went to print. This
question is enough to
make any decent
journalist want to
commit murder. "For,
you, it's just a story, "
she said, clearly
noticing my reaction. "But for me,
this is my life."
Over the years I began to think
about what is my life, and it all
became clear: it is my family. And
caring for them is not a series of 71;
mundane chores: it is the most valu-
able work in the world.
My son's teacher at Akiva is Lissie
Rothstein, one of the best teachers I
have ever known (along with my
daughter's teachers, Mrs. Seligson
and Mrs. Goldman). On her wall is
a quote that captures my attention
each time I see it. It was written by
a woman named Kathy Davis, and
it says: "One-hundred years from
now it will not matter what my bank
account was, the sort of house I
lived in, or the kind of car I drove
— but the world may be different
because I was important in the lif
of a child." O
Elizabeth Applebaum
A.ppleTree Editor