by matildaleyser | Jun 22, 2023 | Art and Care, Mothers who Make
For Nicky It has long bothered me that motherhood is so often framed as a tale of sacrifice. When I was working on my book, No Season but the Summer, the novelist Nicky Singer – who mentored me with such generosity and perspicacity that she became my ‘Book Mama’-...
by matildaleyser | May 21, 2023 | On Writing
I am not used to this process – of having written a book. With a show, the exchange happens all in one go. You perform it, the audience watch it, and are part of it. Writing and reading are both such private, intimate and yet prolonged forms of exchange. A book...
by matildaleyser | May 5, 2023 | Art and Care
I have written 92 blogs, to date. I just counted, because I am slowly sifting and sorting through them, to transfer them over to my new website, which will house them from now on. 92 blogs, but today I feel wobbly about whether I can write this – the 93rd. It’s...
