When I set out to write my next script, this isn’t the story I had in mind. I was catching Alexandra up on the latest with Freya, when she suggested there was a story there. She was right, and within a week I had my tenth draft of Dog Mom written. 

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While the script isn’t autobiographical, it is very much inspired by some of the things that are weighing most heavily on me right now. 

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Like Emily, I wanted to be the best dog mom. Unlike Emily, I was feeling pretty good raising our first dog, Nugget. And then we got Freya. I was forced to recalibrate my beliefs on nature vs nurture, and for the first time, I started questioning if I could handle having kids, and if I even wanted them anymore. 

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While Emily has all of this internal conflict going on, she’s also being confronted by external noise. This specific noise can manifest in many ways for a childless woman. For example, recently someone I barely know asked me how old I am, if there were any babies on the way, and then implied I better get started soon. 

 

With so much ground to cover in such a short medium, I wanted to touch upon all these topics, and turn it to the audience to maybe recalibrate some of their own beliefs.

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I hope that after seeing Dog Mom, the next time my audience glimpses a parent struggling with a seemingly misbehaving dog, or child, in public, they choose empathy, and consider how much work might be being put in behind the scenes