Laura Shea Souza is a freelance writer whose essays on motherhood, mothers and daughters, and relationships of all kinds, have appeared in The Boston Globe; The Boston Globe Magazine; NPR/WBUR’s Cognoscenti forum, where she is a featured contributor; and in a variety of other online and print publications.
Laura is also an award-winning communications professional with extensive experience in public relations strategy and execution in a variety of industries including technology and higher education.
Hello, Laura. I am a writer and editor in Newton (profile on Wikipedia if you’re interested) who read your “Parenting, Act 1” piece in the Globe Magazine, and was very touched by it. I read it aloud to my wife as she was cooking dinner. Our 14-year-old daughter, enmeshed in “Act 2” of the drama you so beautifully describe, came in from the next room to sample more directly what she was hearing. Thank you.