I'm happy to announce that my book, The Female Assumption, is now for sale at Amazon.com.  I would like to take a moment to explain the choice of the subtitle, A Mother's Story: Freeing Women from the View that Motherhood is a Mandate.  First of all, I'm a mom and I've lived much of what I write about.  Many of the women I interviewed spoke of feeling boxed-in by the expectations of those around them.  Some who