By Amy Keyes When Did Middle Aging Get So Hard and How Did My Parents Make It Look So Easy?
When I was younger, I had no concept of age. My parents and their friends could have been 50, and…
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By Hilary Gately What Grandmas Do in Heaven
I can picture my mom sitting at her dining room table, the whirring of the old sewing machine filling the…
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By Amy Martin All I Wanted Was Her Four-Leaf Clover
I walked past the antique chair into the sunken living room of the beautifully decorated home. I passed the extensive…
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By Lisa Leshaw She Called for Me in the Night
I wasn’t scared of a single thing when I was a little girl, except for EVERYTHING that happened each night…
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By Ashley Daniels I Think You Knew
I told you I was proud of you on one of your worst days. I wanted to stay longer, but…
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By Lisa Kottenstette Mom’s Unspeakable Joy
After my mom had a stroke, she could not speak and could barely move the right side of her body.…
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By Christen McKey The Tangled and Beautiful Roots of Our Family Tree are My Mother’s Masterpiece
There are times my kids will slip up and call me “Grana” instead of “Mama.” I just laugh and jokingly…
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By Marissa Khosh Dear Mom, You Are the Picture of Devotion
I hope someday I will be as devoted a grandma as my mom is. It is hard to put into…
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By Tabitha Yates The Brightest Star in Heaven
Some children are blessed with the very best grandmothers who seem to shine as bright as the heavens. Mine were…
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She’s a Grandma Who Shows Up for the People She Loves
Three red envelopes fan in my palm, waiting. I already know what they contain and I'm accustomed to it by…
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Alzheimer’s Is the Longest Goodbye
I’m not losing you once, I’m losing pieces of you every day as this disease relentlessly takes you from me,…
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By Her View From Home Dear Little Me, It Wasn’t Your Fault
Little me, it was not your fault. You were not a bad child. You did not need fixing. You did not…
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