On missing my children, but delighting in my solitude
What it has felt like this week to be entirely alone, plus an extract from My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story
I have spent the past week alone, blissfully alone, on a trip to West Texas. When I am at home it is messy, chaotic and I am very very rarely on my own - it is absolutely full of love but completely exhausting. Even if my younger children are at school and I am working, I am thinking about them, planning lifts around them, running errands for them, or e…