Thank you! Don't forget to confirm subscription in your email.
Rachel Johnson —
British
Author
born on September 03, 1965,
Rachel Sabiha Johnson is a British editor, journalist, television presenter and author based in London... (wikipedia)
Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.