Happy Mother’s Day
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." --Dorothy Canfield Fisher (who, coincidentally, has a dorm at Goddard College named after her).
Isn’t it strange?
Comments on my article on The Huffington Post yesterday featured many protests to my suggestion that, if we really think single motherhood is bad for women and children, then maybe we, as a caring society, should think about how we can help. Essentially (paraphrasing...
Blaming single moms
Here is an article on the Huffington Post today about single motherhood, in which seven out of ten commenters seem determined to prove the statistic that seven out of ten Americans think single motherhood is "bad for society." When did we become so selfish? Without...
A tribute to my mother
On Salon today, an essay about my mother. Here's a sneak peak: My mother was always there. She was a 1950s housewife, living in the '60s and '70s. Whatever my siblings and I needed, she gave: hand-sewn prom dresses; homemade Christmas ornaments; she pulled up a stool...
The Globe and Mail
I've done close to one hundred interviews, between research for my three books, Why She Left Us, Hiroshima in the Morning and my next novel just completed, Shadow Child. Now, I get a taste of my own medicine! I had a wonderful, spirited conversation with Sarah...
Interview questions
I was interviewed by Lara Dunning for her blog recently. My responses are up now. She asked me a question about the role of visual media (TV and internet) on triggering lost or pushed aside memories within the hibakusha, a question no one has ever asked before. ...
On Parenting….dot com!
Parenting.com asked me to write about the reaction to my motherhood. You can read the whole essay here. Here is a sample: "What is a woman’s place? Why are we so eager to judge mothers, and ourselves, based on a belief that self-sacrifice equals love? Why is the...
What (was!) going on in Japan
This one hour conversation, on the Acupuncture Power Hour with Tim Chambers, aired on March 28th, but I am just getting the link now. On the page, the show, What's Going on in Japan, appears in the list second to the bottom.
The Moment I Knew
"Two decades together. All of my adult life. Every day of it in relationship, in twinship. In compromise. He wanted to go back to that life; he wanted the last six months erased. And faced with that impossibility, before he could go forward he needed me to...
Talking with Dr. Laura Berman
Here's a clip from yesterday's radio interview, which was a wonderful, in-depth hour conversation. (This is just a seven minute section.) "Oprah Radio host Dr. Laura Berman talks with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, author of Hiroshima in the Morning, about her unconventional...