Alberta novelist, poet and mother Lisa Martin-DeMoor blogs about "what it means to be a writer 'at home' — with kids, books, dreams, a window to the trees, and an ear to the sparrows."
Like so many of us, she is working out how to be a mom-writer, a mom-artist. While the pursuit involves a lot of juggling, hopping and the inevitable face-plant, it also requires a community of other women with whom to share ideas, frustrations and inspirations. These days, that community doesn't have to be limited to those in our immediate vicinity. Pour a cup of tea and sit down with Lisa at her blog, Writer in Residence.
Today, on International Women's Day, she recommends two works that will give new determination to any woman who has ever felt torn between two great joys: the film Who Does She Think She Is? by Pamela Tanner Boll, and the essay collection Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queens).
Elsewhere she writes of the forced concentration imposed by a bad migraine, of tracking events and little voices with our inexact calendars and memories — of imperfection and that somehow-reassuring goal: Fail better.
Lisa Martin-DeMoor's poetry collection is One Crow Sorrow (Brindle & Glass, 2008).
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