by MCH | Jul 4, 2024 | Courage
As a picture book author and caregiver, I’ve learned a crucial lesson: saying ‘yes’ to everyone else often means saying ‘no’ to myself and my work. Our time is finite. Each ‘yes’ to an external demand is a ‘no’ to...
by MCH | Jul 3, 2024 | Courage
Each day, I sit down to write, develop some part of the project, an evolving entity on the x-axis of time. Parallel to this runs my role as caregiver to my mother, her need for care a variable that defies prediction.The project of book making with the project of care....
by MCH | Jun 18, 2024 | Care, Community
As Caribbean brown women of working-class inheritance, we face the disproportionate duality of caregiving responsibilities for our elders and disabled family members while pursuing professional and personal ambitions. It is challenging. Sometimes...
by MCH | Jun 18, 2024 | Education, Literacy
Understand the role of parents/caregivers as book selectors As a children’s book author, Can I say the “A” word – Author – out loud! It’s both scary and exciting to learn the process of bookmaking while crafting this picture book,...
by MCH | Jun 13, 2024 | Education
After leaving art school some 10 years ago with a mountain of student loan debt from my working-class background, the system didn’t seem geared towards allowing me to pursue a creative career. I didn’t know how to have a creative career. So, I focused on paying...
