Tag: life
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Protected: Of Ambivalence, Loss, and What Seemed Retribution …
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Protected: Of Rules, Quilts, A Coat of Many Colors, and Knowing …
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Protected: Of The Good Daughter, Marriage and A Different Path …
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Of History Lessons, The Pursuit of Happiness and Choice …
Assisting our eight grader with her American History lessons has called me to revisit the United States’ Declaration of the Independence, of which the second paragraph states, “ … We hold these truths self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are…
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Of Riding Ellipticals, Counting Minutes, and The Challenge of Parenting …
Like the teacher in my psychology program who said that the hardest thing about parenting was the time required, I find that I never have enough. Mothering three daughters, seeing to my husband, or rather attending our marriage, along with my work as a psychotherapist, and writing novels proves daunting. I count minutes in much…
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Of Mothers, Daughters and Cracking Open the Pomegranate…
A fruit of both the body and the soul, the spirit and heart, the pomegranate casts a net long and wide, deep and with breadth stretching into those areas of life perceived not with the eyes but with inner knowing that comes with age and experience. The relationship between mothers and daughters is as old…
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Of Mothers, Daughters and Pomegranate Seeds…
The Greek myth of Persephone centers on the relationship between Persephone and her mother, Demeter. Demeter loved her daughter, Persephone very much. The story goes that the Greek God, Apollo, fathered Persephone by Demeter, Apollo’s sister. When Persephone goes missing Demeter, quite distraught, searches every hill and valley to find her daughter and only child.…