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Remember Mother Earth This Mom’s Day

When I was a child, I looked forward to Mother's Day with extreme excitement. Not the waiting-for-Santa-Claus type of holiday thrill, but the anticipated joy of putting a smile on my mother's face by …

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Trying To Keep This Magic Moment

It's Monday morning, just seconds before the children's alarms go off. Soon, I will be forced to admit that this week has begun. I'm not really ready for it. If I could come up with a way to delay it,…

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My Mother And Her Vibrator

Three years ago, this Shameless Woman convinced my sister to go in on a vibrator as a gift for our mother for her birthday. I think my mom must have been turning 78 or 79 at the time. My mother is a…

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Guinea Pain

By Heather King It hit me right then. Oh, I said to me. One of the reasons I was drinking so much was to be nice to me. Of course now, in recovery, I see I wasn’t being nice to me at all, but then?…

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Divine Wisdom For An Everyday Renaissance

The mother in me knows that I am perfectly imperfect. She knows that nothing in the past left me any less sacred, beloved, and precious than I was on the day I was born. She knows that nothing I've ch…

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Who Needs More Exercise? You Do Mom and Dad

There exist numerous jokes and jabs at the expense of new parents about "baby weight" and an ever-declining level of physical fitness après baby. This goes for the mother, as well as the father. I can…

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TSA Freaks Out Over Breast Milk

On a flight a few years ago, from a one mid-sized airport to another, I got my first dose of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) harassment, or at least what I considered TSA harassment. I w…

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Who Loves You, Baby?

It has been a difficult morning. Emotion sits on my chest and it is hard to take a deep breath. I know from my studies of Traditional Chinese Medicine that we hold unresolved grief in our lungs, and I…

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