Tag: mother
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Injurious Actions, Political Dictators, and Near Sadist Employers…
Most often the recipients of these injurious actions and words we commit constitute that group of people closest to us, daughters, sons, mothers, wives, husbands, fathers, co-workers, professional partners and colleagues, classmates, students, employees, those subordinate, lateral and even sometimes superior in professional rank to us. Why do we do it?
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Mothers, Hope, and the words, “I’m sorry…”
The hardest thing about being a mother is that you never feel as though you’ve done enough. So many nights I go to bed wondering, pondering, construing and often, I am sure, miscontruing, how I might have done better at something for or with my one of my children. It’s particularly hard when you witness…
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Publishing Contracts, Motherhood, Dreams, Hopes and Wishes…
I’ve been busy these last few weeks refining and making last changes to the document files for interior and book cover of my novel, “The House”. It’s been an interesting experience bringing this piece of work, “The House” to fruition. My first book, a collection of short stories, “Keeper of Secrets…Translations of an Incident”, was…
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Of Long Weekends, Discipline and Time for Dreaming…
This past weekend was a holiday weekend. I relish long weekends. They give me more time with my husband and children. The greatest challenge of any writer is finding enough time. Time to write and time with family and friends. The true writer writes. She or he doesn’t talk or dream about writing. They develop…