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The Mother of All Days

Mother’s Day. She comes around every year and has a way of stopping me in my tracks. A mixture of gratitude and grief, timing and tragedy, love and loss. (note the deliberate order of those comparisons). Elaine. The queen of the glass half full. Even when she couldn’t find the glass anymore she fought her […]

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MOM. In caps.

I am a mom. And a daughter. And everything that I have learned about being a mom, I learned from being her daughter.

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Waltz Your Heart Out

This one is priceless. For those of you who did not know my parents, my dad has been a cardiac patient for almost 20 years. I am quite sure she cut this out to convince him that dancing with her more often was good for his health. A hopeless romantic, that Elaine! When I was […]

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