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M is for the Million Things She Gave Me….
Motherhood. The stuff of epic poetry. The building blocks of psycho-analysis. The root cause of thousands of therapist couch-hours. The butt of jokes, the brick of cliche, even the muse for slang...
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This Year, Give Mom the Gift that Keeps on Giving
My best Mother’s Day was the year my husband asked me, point-blank, what I wanted. Instead of playing coy, instead of saying I didn’t want anything, instead of assuming he would know I was just being a...
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Real Moms of Genius, We Salute You
Today we salute you, Newborn Mom, who has just been thrown to the sharks; As well as you, Empty Nest Mom, who is starting to forget what it was like. Today we salute you, Martha Stewart Mom, who uses...
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You are the Architect of Your Dreams (But Your Mother Dusted Them)
If you need a reason to call your mother on Mother’s Day this year, consider this one: You may be the architect of your dreams, but it was your mother who dusted them. I don’t mean the magic, fairy...
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The Motherhood Matrix
Mothers of the world, we’ve been duped. We’ve been bamboozled. Lied to. Shafted. We have had the wool well and truly pulled over our eyes. Riddle me this: Who can take a sunrise, sprinkle it with...
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A Tribe of Mothers
I been a part of many wholes in my life. Some have been more important than others, yet none of those groups or demographics I’ve been party to or part of have been as defining as the one which...
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To All the Moms I’ve Loved Before
First was the mother who cradled me, belly then arms; the one who checked for breath in the middle of the night and stayed up until dawn slaying fevers, the one who documented first teeth and words,...
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The Case for Mother’s Day
Surely we don’t need a commercialized holiday like Mother’s Day to tell us when to celebrate the mothers in our lives. No need to buy into this forced appreciation nonsense, right? We should celebrate...
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Ah Mother's Day. When we're encouraged to laud the women who taught us how to tie our shoes, eat soup without clinking the spoon against our teeth, and to make beds with the corners tucked in. The...
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