> But the man who would become my second husband desired a child, so I made a child happen. That’s our dynamic. He writes checks; I make things happen. As noted

> But the man who would become my second husband desired a child, so I made a child happen. That’s our dynamic. He writes checks; I make things happen. As noted, I have money of my own, but he out-earns me by a factor of 10-to-1 and he talks a good socialist game on Twitter, so our arrangement seems only fair. It’s not specifically relevant to her experience as a mother or her established career as a professional writer, but the author’s husband is David Simon, best known for creating of “The Wire” (among other HBO shows). Her reference to his Twitter persona made me laugh :)