Interview With Kerri

by Kerri Sackville on 6 May 2011

I love giving interviews. I am what one might call an ‘extrovert’ (if one was being polite; the other frequently used term is ‘show off’) , and I welcome any opportunity to talk about myself. However, too much attention is never enough, and in the absence of an interview to complete today, I figured I would write my own.

Still, writing my own interview questions seems unseemly (and besides, I did it a couple of weeks back on my blog). So I thought I would enlist the services of my family to pose some questions to me. And here they are:

Little Man (11): What is the square root of your book?

Me: 749. But I would have thought that’s obvious.

Boo (3): I love you, mum.

Me: Thank you darling. I love you too. But that’s not really a question.

My Dad: What books have most influenced you in your writing?

Me: ‘Property Law’, by Sackville and Neave, 1971. I haven’t read it, but you have told me repeatedly it’s really, really good.

My Mum: What would you like for dinner on Friday?

Me: Chicken.

Pinkela (9): What’s really blue, the sky or the ocean?

Me: Um.... go ask your brother.

Hubby: Why can’t we all just get along?

Me: Oh good lord.

My Mum: Would you like a cup of tea?

Me: Thanks, that’d be nice.

Boo: I love you!

Me: Thanks again, sweetie. Still not a question, though.

Hubby: I want a party with cakes and ice cream. Discuss.

Me: You’re 44 years old. Get over it.

Boo: I want to go to Spongebob land. Discuss.

Me: Spongebob Land doesn’t exist.

Boo: Can we go tomorrow?

Me: Sure.

Little Man: How many digits of Pi can you name?

Me: I think it starts with three.

Hubby: Where are my white socks?

Me: In a far, far better place, I’m sure.

Pinkela: Can I drive?

Me: Not till you’re ten.

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Kerri Sackville

After the birth of her first child in 1999, Kerri completed a BA in English and Linguistics, and returned to her first love, writing. She has worked as a copywriter and freelance writer for nine years, and in that time has written extensively for mainstream media and parenting magazines, including the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, The Telegraph, Sunday Life magazine, the Child group of magazines, Littlies magazine (New Zealand) and Notebook magazine. Kerri also has a long-standing, humorous column in the Australian Jewish News, 'Life And Other Crises', in which she details the endless dramas of her domestic life.Kerri's stories are usually funny, occasionally deeply moving, and always highly personal, and cover everything from weight loss to friendship, sex, parenthood and grief.In May 2009 Kerri joined Twitter, and quickly built up a following of over 2000. She began blogging shortly afterwards at lifeandothercrises.blogspot.com, and in 2010 was shortlisted for Australasian Blogger of the Year. Kerri is also a regular contributor and popular figure on the enormously successful website Mamamia.com.As a blogger, Kerri has been interviewed several times on ABC radio, and has been profiled in the Sunday Magazine and Sunday Life magazine. She has been featured as a panellist at the Sydney Jewish Writers Festival 2010 and the Sydney Bloggers Festival 2010, and was recently named as one of Kidspot.com's Top 10 Bloggers.Kerri is married to Tony, a workaholic architect. They live in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney with their three children - a son aged 11, and two daughters aged nine and three - and their recalcitrant bunny rabbit.