(UN)COMMON DENOMINATORS

The people that descended on my home last night were all women, all living in Scandinavia for various reasons, and all writers of online journals that I read. We came in different shapes and colors and sizes. We were in our 20s, our 30s, our 40s, and our 50s. We were pregnant, child-free, trying to conceive, and mothers, of children both school-age and grown. We were single, girlfriends, sambos, wives, divorcing, divorced, engaged, re-married, in love. We were newly employed, self-employed, freelancing, working, studying, and jobhunting. We were photographers, singers, readers, crafty chicas, vegetarians, dog owners, flirts, green thumbs, snorers,...