I see it as a large file, or bookshelf, or showcase even, of some past work from 1970 to the present. I've tried to organise it by subject or field of involvement (see the Menu list on the left), but some pieces are hard to categorise, others want to go in several places.

I also hope it will serve as a place where I can post new work as I finish it, or finish drafts of chapters for a synthesis book I hope to get back to in 2006, entitled 'Motherland' perhaps, or else 'Facing Each Other'.

Please bear in mind that sometimes I coin new words like 'malemployment', 'frat', 'matri-sphere' and 'co-mothering' (as an adjective). I hope you won't be put off but will rather look for the meaning in explanations offered there, or from how the words are used in context - which is how we all learned language in the first place.

Although this is an individual site, I will include one or two guest pieces, plus links to other writers, activists and groups. Like you I am a child of my time and place(s) and deeply influenced by other writers who came before me, and by the social movements I have been involved with. More about me if you are interested.

If you would like to get in touch - critique and comment welcome! - please e-mail keith[dot]mothersson[at]phonecoop[dot]coop (written by me in this way to defeat the spam spiders). If I don't reply it may be worth phoning me on 0845 456 4779 (local rate number) or writing to me at 2b Darnhall Cres, Perth PH2 0HH. (I think my e-mail is blocked sometimes, at any rate from new people.)

If you have any technical problems or suggestions for improvements to the site, please also let me know and I'll discuss them with Joe McLoughlin, my friend here in Perth, Scotland, who has been helping me get started with this site and the previous one: www.julyseventh.co.uk .Thanks a lot Joe!

Keith Mothersson, December 2005

P.S. Technical bit: If you would like to tell people about this site, please do, but remember to include the full front page URL, ending in   /home.html (also note the hypen between keith and mothersson, not a dot as in my e-mail). Most of you will know how to send a specific page location to a friend or colleague or to use it for citation purposes, but in case you don't (and I didn't till Joe told me) you go to the next level above that page and then point your mouse at the link as if to go down to the page concenrned. At that moment the full URL for that specific page should come up in a window on a bar near the bottom left corner of your screen, which you'll have to remember because it vanishes when you go to copy it! (Sorry about that)