An Author's Notebook

I blame Facebook. For all those wasted hours. Every morning, I settle down in front of my computer, flex my fingers above the keyboard and m...

Whenever I succumb to a bit of navel-gazing, the subject is always the same. How to be happy. You'd have thought I'd got it sussed b...

Silence descends on the house. The kids are back at school, the dog has been walked and I am finally free to get on with some work. For the ...

My feet have hardly touched the ground since 2016 kicked off in a burst of fireworks over the banks of the river Thames. Once the kids were ...

New research from the US shows that mums are crying out for flexible jobs. Hulafrog , a network of US parenting sites, co-founded by my frie...