Ten years ago rocker Amy Rigby released the critically acclaimed CD, Diary of a Mod Housewife, which is now out in a special 10th anniversary edition and available on her website. The former East Villager now lives in France, where she writes a blog called, Little Fugitive In France.  An OTBKB reader gave me a heads up about one of her posts. Very touching.

"Let me take a break from being that guitar totin’ woman of the world
and wallow in sentimental mother-mode for a minute: I miss my daughter
so much sometimes! I walk around feeling a little glum and wonder
what’s wrong with me. Then I look at the clock and it’s about ten to
three and it hits me – I should be dropping everything to pick her up
from school and give her a ride somewhere. But I don’t have to anymore.

I try calling her but of course she’s in class, or out doing
some fun, exciting, young adult thing that perhaps she’ll tell me about
when I do reach her. I find myself checking her myspace page, or even
her friends’ pages, just to get a sense of being around her. I think
"This is really pathetic" but then it occurs to me that I’m doing the
equivalent of going and sitting in her room, looking at her stuff and
and then wistfully shutting the door. But our stuff’s in storage so I
look for her in cyberspace – sometimes modern life is very weird. And I
wonder how other parents deal with this empty feeling that comes and
goes. I hope she doesn’t read this, but I think I’m safe in assuming
that she has better things to do than trawl the internet finding out
what I’m up to."