Tag: mother
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Protected: Of Bloggers, Mothers’ Work, and ‘Ann Romney and Me’ …
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Of Mom-Preneurs, The American Dream, and ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ …
The host of a blog addressing the experience of parenting recently shared with me that she had recognized what might be a trend in how women solved the dilemma of how to continue working but in a way that leaves us feeling that our work has not intruded upon our desires, fervent as those to…
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Of Mothers, Sons and Actions that Leave Us Eternally Changed…
Grace…., a photo by Acoustic Soul on Flickr. It always happens this way. A shooting takes place in our nation. A person and/or others are killed while going about their day. Voices cry out, those of the bereaved family members and others in shock and anger. Stories of the incident make a virulent trek across…
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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.…