Enough Time

Janet Banks is a Boston-based writer who writes about her childhood experiences growing up in Iowa, and life as wife and mother, working first as a teacher in New York City before joining the corporate world there and in Boston. She and her husband, Art, have four children between them, and eighteen grandchildren. Her essays, stories and poems have appeared in The Rumpus, Entropy Magazine, WBUR's Cognoscenti, Parks & Points, Bluestem Magazine, Poetry and Places, Silver Birch Press, Persimmon Tree, Lucky Jefferson, Bryant Literary Review, Backchannel Journal, Poetry and Covid, a project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and elsewhere. Shortly after retiring, she was published in The Harvard Business Review. The essay was reprinted in HBR's Special Issue: "How to Lead in a Time of Crisis." Enough Time is her eightieth birthday present to herself, her family and friends.