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Grown Children, Kids
August 16, 2019
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Here’s What I Know About Parenting, There’s Never Enough Time

When you first have children they talk about the challenges of parenting, the struggles of a baby waking in the night, the toddler who won’t stay…

Grown Children, Motherhood
August 10, 2019
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Better Late Than Never: An Apology to My Mother

Dear Mom, I didn’t begin to understand the unrealistic impossible expectations I put on you. I would easily forgive Dad’s transgressions. He…

Grown Children, Motherhood, Teen
July 22, 2019
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I Just Left a Piece of My Heart in a College Dorm

I saw Hoda Kotb today in New York about to start her third hour of The Today Show. I waved through the glass and she waved back! It was raining, but…

Grown Children, Motherhood
July 19, 2019
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I’ll Hold My Mother’s Hands as Long as I Can

These are the hands that held me as I took my first breaths. The hands that fed me and changed my diapers and rocked me to sleep at night. The hands…

Grief, Grown Children
July 19, 2019
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To My Dad Gone Too Soon: I Miss You

Dear Dad, Man, I miss you. It seems like just yesterday I was getting dressed up in my frilly dress to go on one of our infamous daddy-daughter…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
July 15, 2019
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She’s My Mom, and She Did Her Best

It was a typical Thursday morning, but the gloomy clouds and drizzling rain poetically accompanied a nagging sadness that I tried to ignore as I went…

Grief, Grown Children
July 9, 2019
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Please Don’t Leave Me Yet, Mom

The sound of my phone startled me as I started down a dirt path in search of momentary solitude. I groaned, irritated by the interruption, pulling it…