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Please Don’t Think I’ve Gone MIA

Susan Bostian
2 min readJun 20, 2022
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In certain academic settings such as universities, there is pressure to publish articles or lose status among peers and the professional community. And so it is with the Medium platform as well.

The Membership rules state that I need to publish or risk being considered inactive. Here’s why there’s been less of me on here.

After a robust writing start last summer, I suddenly became a mother of three children at the tender age of 70.

You might have read my story about not wanting to admit that I was 69 years old.

Well, now I tell everyone that I am seventy years old and taking care of three children.

I’m not sure who or what created us and I’m often critical of some of the design features of this life, but, I am absolutely humbled by the brilliance of having an end date for women to procreate.

I am of course, madly in love with these three precious beings. And I would sacrifice everything to ensure that they feel safe and loved. But, when I tell…

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