Tag: transformation
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Of Breaths, Challenges and Handing Over the Reins…
“…[M]others and daughters can have a close bond, but should never take it to the level of being best friends…” say Susan Morris Shaffer and Linda Perlman Gordon, co-authors of Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship. “A best friend is different than a mother-daughter relationship,” says Shaffer in her…
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Of Alice Miller, Amy Chua, and Parenting as a Way of Growth and Transformation…
A beneficiary of the Civil Rights Era, I entered integration in third grade carrying with me the missive delivered to many middle-class African-American children around the country: “Integration [of schools] offers an opportunity to work even harder. You may sit next to white students, but you will need to prove yourself. You will need to…
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Of Love, Dreams and Waking Up…
“Love is one long sweet dream and marriage is the alarm clock.” BLOOM OF LOVE on Twitter When reading this on Twitter I immediately thought of how living so closely with someone, waking up to them next to you when your breath does not carry the aroma you would like to hit your nose, never…
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Protected: Of Intimacy, Revelation and Redemption…
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Protected: Of Pacing, Tension and the All-Important Artistry of Holding the Reader’s Attention…a
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