Several women shriek with laughter when the irrepressible Ms. Strachan tells this story. The new mother is not easily pigeonholed. A closer look finds that they, too, have changed. Ms. Strachan's partner, Kim Trollope, offered to stay at home so she could have a career. He, too, is content to wait and not worry about being a career-less man.
Life is a shifting thing.
It's always in flux. My family moved to another neighbourhood and I had a surprising encounter. Being on leave from my job to write a novel, I was the only man on my new street not out working. An elderly woman on her way to the bus stop introduced herself. I wasn't quite sure what to make of this intrusion into my comfortable shell of anonymity.