Welcome to the January 2014 Carnival of Natural Parenting: The More Things Stay the Same This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Hobo Mama and Code Name: Mama. This month our participants have talked about the continuity and constancy in their lives. Please read to the end […]
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Welcome to the final week of the month-long Carnival of Creative Mothers to celebrate the launch of The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity in the Midst of Motherhood by Lucy H. Pearce which has been Amazon.co.uk’s Hottest New Release in Motherhood for the past week! Today’s topic is The Creative Process. Do read to the end of this post for a full list of carnival
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After reading Lisa Hassan Scott’s various pieces in response to write alm’s November writing prompts I took a look at the various prompts and one in particular caught my eye. It was ‘Autumn glow’. I already had the picture painted, so all I needed was the words. I’m actually writing more on this subject – autumn beauty
The Swing With aching limbs and clicking joints I climb onto the swing. I push the air with straightened legs, And quickly gather speed. A pendulum of sorts am I – With limbs that ache no more. The years recede as I gain height; I’m borne, reborn, in air. Now childhood dreams of long ago
My husband and I often have discussions about praise. He is wary of it. I don’t tend to be. I guess the way that people accept praise is very much to do with their own upbringing and how comfortable and confident a person is with their own talents, work and creations. But it is also
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I wrote this a while ago, but (as usual) never got round to posting it up straight after. So, seeing as it’s Mothering Sunday, I feel it’s now or never! My daughter made the playdough art, and I stuck it on the fridge, though it had to come down pretty soon before her sibling got
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In the past month I’ve received one rejection of a poem from a magazine editor, one acceptance of a poem by another magazine editor (hurrah!) and two online recognitions of my poetry; one from Baby Wisdom, and one from the blogger Slummy single mummy (as part of her brilliant review of Musings on Mothering). When
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It was lovely to have this poem published on the Dagda Publishing website (fairly) recently, http://dagdapublishing.com/2012/12/19/childhood-sweetheart-oh-how-you-shine-in-this-city-of-mine/ since I greatly enjoyed writing this poem. It is a cento (well, loosely), which means that every line comes from a different poet’s poem, and each poem came from Concrete Jungles a poetry anthology about cities which was published by
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It is ironic that a poem of mine (a triolet) about grief is about to be published whilst I am experiencing grief. Our beloved cat, our pet of many years, died last week and I am ‘still’ experiencing waves of grief. It would belittle my grief – and our loving cat – to make light
GRIEF it has withered me, hollowed me out; Read More »
As family life is forever busy I sometimes forget what I’ve written, until I happen across it online, or in a real magazine… As I read the 2012 Winter Issue of Juno I saw my poem, a triolet, entitled ‘Within My Mother’s Arms’ and then flicked back and saw that my article about Naomi Stadlen’s
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