Guest post: Lost In Motherland

Beatrice Scudeler on the tension between little children and big dreams

I love this essay because it’s about unexpectedly finding a new vocation, in giving up a previous dream. Something similar happened to me: I was terrible at every job I ever tried my hand at, had more or less given up on having any kind of career, and was happy with the idea of being a stay at home mum. Only then I accidentally became a writer, which is…