It might seem odd to compare my time away in hospital, grappling with a life-threatening illness, to stepping into a magical land through the back of a wardrobe…but there are definitely similarities.
Mothers who Make
My New Recipe for Making Art – What’s Yours?
My new recipe is starting to take shape, one in which great work could come, not from 10 hours of uninterrupted time alone per day, but from a lifetime of company and care: 10,000 precious scraps of time, mixed in with 1000 wild days of care.
The Monstrous Shame of Motherhood and the Quest for a Cure
The shame comes from a thousand ‘shoulds,’ from the many things I feel I should be doing as a mother and am not. Motherhood, along with the paraphernalia of nappies, wipes and purees, comes with a huge bundle of shoulds…..
The Only Parenting Book You’ll Ever Need…. Or What to do When They Grow
There’s only one parenting book, I believe, anyone truly need read…
It’s very short, and it’s got pictures. You probably don’t need to read any other book on creative practice either…..
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.
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…
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.
Am I Good Enough?An Inner Critic Workshop for You
I ask the question ‘Am I good enough?’ or versions of it – is what I make good enough? Or any good at all? Is this blog worthwhile? Is the novel I have just finished (after 10 years) worthy of publishing, or an embarrassment? Etc. – on a regular basis.