Our memories of food: they can take us back to the heady aromas of our grandmother’s cooking, negotiations around the contents of lunchboxes, an incident at the family breakfast table, the stench of compulsory school dinners and the hollow pain of going without. Is our first food memory that of our mother’s milk? Maybe so. […]
Some of us were mothered well, some of us had difficult interactions with the woman who gave us life. Some had surrogate, alternative or adoptive mothers. With Mother’s Day coming up, now is a good time to explore this often complex relationship, giving it some creative attention through writing either a letter or a poem. […]
Some of us were mothered well, some of us had difficult interactions with the woman who gave us life. Some had surrogate, alternative or adoptive mothers. With Mother’s Day coming up, now is a good time to explore this often complex relationship, giving it some creative attention through writing either a letter or a poem. […]