Get away? Hah!

REGARDING writer Caitlin Flanagan [“The Mother Lode,” by Gina Piccalo, April 12], the happy housewife: That snickering sound you hear is 100,000 working moms gleefully laughing at the thought of Flanagan embarking on her book tour. As soon as she gets on the plane, the family gerbil will die, the 8-year-old twins will come down with fever and vomiting, the plumbing will spring a leak and the husband will score a business trip, all of which will require that housewife Flanagan cancel the book tour and return home on the very next flight. So much for having it all.

KATHI SMITH

Ojai