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I came across this column I wrote in 1998, and for some reason it felt so relevant that I thought I would share this trimmed version (with a Billy Joel headline). When I quit full-time work, a major factor had been the desire to spend more time with my infant …

“How you feeling today, Gramma?”  I would ask that question of my paternal grandmother every day.  “The head hurting. The blood pressure and the sugar high,” she would invariably answer. “Squeeze the head for me, beti.” I was a child then, as yet unafflicted by the relentless headache that arrived …