At midnight last night, I reached for the book on my bedside locker, then put it back. Before getting lost in the world of Upper-eastside Manhattan, I needed to have a think. To look back on the day, and trace where things went wrong. It wasn't a terrible day, just a mediocre-not-great day. I spent ...
Month: February 2016
Office Mum stories – Alison Canavan
“You create your own glass ceiling. Break through it just like in Willy Wonka. People told me my book idea was silly, my shows wouldn’t work… Nothing has fallen in my lap I have had to fight for every bit of what I have.” Alison Canavan is an international model, a parenting, health and wellbeing specialist, ...
One for the Runners
Little Glimpses of the Boy I Forgot
A Week in Dinners under the new Head Chef
Every now and then, Sinéad from Bumbles of Rice runs a linky where she shares details of a typical week in dinners, and invites others to do the same. For me, as a distinctly average cook, I like this a lot, because it makes me feel normal to see that other people are dishing up not-always-fancy ...
Seven Ways to Pretend to be Busy at Work
Office Mum stories – Regina Graham
"Parent Guilt is a much documented issue and is often described as “A Silent Epidemic”. It’s hard to avoid these days in the online world we live in." Regina Graham is a Dublin mum of three and owner of Childcarefinder.ie - here she talks about the guilt epidemic that goes hand-in-hand with parenting, the glass ceiling, ...
This Too Shall Pass
There are some platitudes that annoyed me as a new mother more than others, though I think it often depended on who the platitude-giver was and how little sleep I'd had the night before. My personal blood-pressure-raising one was "sleep when baby sleeps". I wanted to cry every time I heard it, and ask how that would help when ...