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I love the logic of children, it can throw such interesting perspective on what we say and how we behave. Today was a good example. After listening to a radio news item about the Met Office changing their summer forecast from “barbecue” to “rain” my five year old said “yeah, I’ll get more television and time [...] In 1935 a young mother wrote a letter to Nursery World asking “Can any mother help me? I live a very lonely life…can any reader suggest an occupation that will intrigue me and exclude “thinking” and cost nothing!” Through this letter the Cooperative Correspondence Club, CCC, was formed by a group of women who wrote [...] Suzanne Kamata is the editor of Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering. This is a thought-provoking anthology written by mothers from across the world (including me!) which I reviewed on this blog in May. Suzanne is a fascinating person. She lives in rural Japan with her Japanese husband and bicultural twins and writes to “keep [...] Like all households we get a lot of mail shots pushed through the door; advertisements for carpet cleaning, conservatories and pleas for money from various charities. I am guilty of gathering it all up and shoving it in the recycling bin. I have no compunction about the conservatories but I’m sure that some of the [...] I’ve just finished reading Mother’s Day by Kirsty Scott. I came to it with scepticism for I am a book snob and derogatory about anything with large, pastel italicised writing on the cover. I only chose it for research – I’m trying to read other “mummy-lit” to learn about the competition for the book I’m [...] The purpose of this blog entry is to link to a piece I wrote for Gaijin Mama, Suzanne Kamata’s blog (Suzanne is editor of Call Me Okaasan). It’s a “day in the life”, a series Suzanne did featuring contributors to the anthology. I meant to post the link when it came out in May but [...] |
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