You Have No Idea How Tired Parents Are Right Now

Omicron has left parents with no good choices. For the love of God, be nice.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
5 min readJan 11, 2022

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Forming a treasured childhood memory. Photo by Tomsickova Tatyana on Shutterstock.

I woke up this morning and stared at the wall for twenty minutes. I went downstairs for coffee, came back up to write and wound up watching an episode of Dickinson on my laptop. I got out a little bracelet of prayer beads and sat in meditation for as long…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.