I just had a seriously sobering thought. The Internet is all about real estate and risk. Just like Monopoly only with real money. Babylune, really, is not the content I write but a URL I don’t own. The address could be sold at any moment and, while I own the content, no one would know where to find it should it have to be moved. That’s a pretty insecure place to live, especially since, in order for me to recover the money I’ve invested in this blog over the past six weeks, I need to convince you (and the other …read more

I know some of you are using maternity leave to launch your writing careers. Here’s a listing from the Absolute Markets newsletter that might be of interest to those of you who write Science Fiction.

Who would have guessed that the motherhood and identity question had so much to do with acronyms?
Really, so much relies on how women describe themselves as SAHM, WAHM, or WOHM that the entire alphabet seems reduced to about 4 letters.
And, as is the problem with other four-letter words, these acronyms are dirty. Imagine the shame of committed SAHM who finds that she has to take in a few neighbourhood kids as an after-school daycare provider in order to pay emergency dental fees? Imagine the WOHM who, after years of double-duty, is handed a pink slip and sent home to the …read more

The news that mothers who work outside (WOHMs) the home tend to be healthier and slimmer than stay at home mothers (SAHMs) is still echoing around the world press. I assume the findings also apply to work at home mothers (WAHMs) like me.
Acronyms aside, according to an article in the Irish Independent, this need not be the case. In How to Be a Stay at Home Mom… and Keep Fit, writer Sue Leonard interviewed a doctors, a stay at home mother, and a Weight Watchers’ leader. The quotes reinforce that people use staying at home, working, living alone and a …read more

6 days until Mothers’ Day and you’ll be relieved to hear I won’t be teaching my three year-old how to scramble eggs for the main breakfast in bed event. Toast is fine, I just hope I don’t get any crumbs on the baby’s head. Does every child insist on nursing the moment their mothers prepare to eat or is it just me?
I often think the only thing mothers have in common is that we’re all women with children. That’s probably why it doesn’t take long to embroil a new mother in a passionate argument. The opportunity to stake out a …read more