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“It’s My Baby,” by Anna Quon
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Stress: Anna Quon and the Healing Power of Work
Saturday, June 16th, 2007Filed under: Uncategorized
STRESS: An essay on the healing power of work
By Anna Quon
There was a time when I was afraid I’d never have a job again. Not as counter help at a donut shop, nor scrubbing toilets at the mall. That was a few years after I’d earned a university degree, and after I’d taught English as a foreign language in Slovakia for most of a year. True, I had some strengths and skills and smarts. But I’d crashed and burned working as a nanny, ended up in the mental hospital again, and emerged as if I’d been released from a butterfly factory: tense and fragile and terrifyingly free.
