About me
I am a professional writer/editor in the corporate arena and the mother of two young
boys, born in 2001 and 2004. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and postgraduate
qualifications in Creative Writing. Although my work has been published too
many times to count, it is my creative writing successes that I most value (including two
novels-in-progress). Since having my first child in 2001, I have become passionate
about writing that explores the responsibility, politics, joys and challenges of raising our
next generation. My first parenting/gift book ‘Being Mummy’ was published in May 2007.
“My patience, resolutions and beliefs are tested to the limits – sometimes daily.”*
Right at this moment one of my challenges is the constant, tuneless whistling from my elder son. When my boys were babies it was getting them to sleep or trying to figure out why they were crying. On any given day now, it might be squabbling, fighting, teasing, screaming, shouting or rudeness. Who’d be a parent? We might well question ourselves after the event, but we can’t very well put them back! Just how we find those inner resources, how we constantly demand more of ourselves, how we keep marching up that hill with a smile on our face and gladness in our heart at the sight of our ‘babies’ is one of life’s mysteries.
* © from Being Mummy by Anne‑marie Taplin published April 2007