I have a photograph, now yellowed with age, of my mom holding securely to my tiny hand at the edge of the shore.  She is looking down at my beaming face, and we are laughing together at the... Read more >>

We watch the buggy until it is out of sight. Grandpa is taking Mama to the train station. My little brother holds my hand. He suddenly lets go and runs into the house. I hear Grandma consoling him.... Read more >>

Bobbie socks, poodle skirts, and leather jackets were the clothes of my mother’s youth. She and her girlfriends formed a club—The Earth Angels. It’s funny for me to think of her that... Read more >>

I never thought I’d turn into my mother.   I can still picture her, apron neatly tied around her waist, as she sifts flour and measures yeast into a bowl. How she enjoyed the excitement of... Read more >>

I remember the day I became a mother. It was March 24, 1999. I remember the day I became a father. It was February 13, 2002. That was the day my husband died and my world as I knew it ended. We were... Read more >>

My mother’s eyes were first opened on November 13, 1917. They were full of surprise, anticipation, hopefulness, youthfulness, awe, joy, and innocence. I look into them today and I find myself... Read more >>

One of my favorite last memories of my mother would be when I had to cut her hair while she was in the hospice center. For most of my life, my mother always had long brown hair past her waist and she... Read more >>

In our professional lives, we react to the interference or support from supervisors. We have all had experiences with the good and the bad ... the helpful and the unreasonable … The same with... Read more >>

As a private employee, working more than eight hours a day, single, working mom of an eight year old girl who goes to school everyday at six in the morning and me at eight, waking up early as four... Read more >>

Sometimes I think I began my life in a condition of shock. First, the shock of air hitting my body for the first time, and then the shock of being dangled upside-down by my feet and having my buttocks... Read more >>