On Living With Your Mom
I've been living with my mom for the last six months. I'm a thirty-one-year-old Asian-American woman, and I'm on food stamps and state sponsored health insurance. I feel shame about it. I feel suffocated when I hold back information when someone asks where I'm staying, or when I refrain from telling my boyfriend that my Medi-Cal doctor is in South Central. Being on food stamps makes me wonder if I've been lazy. Not having “made it" in three years in as an entrepreneur makes me feel I'm a lose...
