On Writing
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On Inviting Yourself to The Ball, and the Necessity of Fairy Godmothers
I feel gripped by the story of being chosen. It’s so powerful as to make me forget what I want, because - when I stop to think of it - I’m sure it wasn’t fame or fortune I was after....
Art and Care
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What will you sacrifice?
It has long bothered me that motherhood is so often framed as a tale of sacrifice. When I was working on my book, the novelist Nicky Singer – who mentored me with such generosity and perspicacity that she became my ‘Book Mama’- informed me that mother-child stories always end in sacrifice. I didn’t want to believe it...
As a Woman
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The Problem of Childcare and A Lonely Hearts Letter for a Community
It’s taken me a long time to admit this, but- here goes: I have a childcare problem. I also, however, have a problem with childcare.
In the World
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Onwards! Or What to do when the slipper doesn’t fit you
I didn’t get picked. No invite to the ball. Which means, I must take my own advice from last month. And pick myself. Again.
Mothers who Make
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Why M/Others WHo Make?
Announcing a new chapter for M/Others Who Make - introducing a forward slash to our name, to celebrate both mother and other-hood.
To the Heart
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All The Lives I am not Living, and A Lie about the One I am
Our lane, outside our house, in blackberry season, leads me to remember the mother that I thought I’d be. You know the one: the mum who ushers her children out the door with baskets swinging on their arms...
