A few years ago, a flyer in our church invited young Catholic women to contribute essays to a forthcoming book. I emailed my interest (as did a few of my other Catholic women friends) and learned I was too old to participate in their project. There have been a lot of signs, since I turned 40, that I'm not as young as I think I am, but this was a particularly jarring one. I had officially become one of those "church ladies", and I hadn't even seen it coming.
Fast forward to 2009, and the book is a reality: From the Pews in the Back. And I'm loving it, and seeing so much of myself in so many of the essays. And as I'm reading it, I'm thinking, "there are many post-Vatican II Catholic women, now in their 40s, whose voices would be important to this conversation as well." Lightbulb goes off: so write about it, Tracy.
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