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Month: January 2018

Posted on January 29, 2018January 29, 2018

The unexpected blessings of motherhood

I was surprised by motherhood. I never expected it to turn out quite the way it did. After I gave birth to my first son, I remember being stunned when I realized that I was going to be responsible for this little human for a very long time. It had never occurred to me before …

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Posted on January 29, 2018January 29, 2018

Keeping Christmas all through the year

We had a Christmas tradition when my sons were little that used to make me crazy. It was a holiday custom my husband brought into our lives from his family, where Santa always delivered the family Christmas tree. Apparently, along with all the other gifts Santa Claus had to deliver all around the world, the …

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Posted on January 29, 2018January 29, 2018

Here’s to those who raise superheroes

They were there when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon. They were in the movie theater when that guy dressed like the Joker broke through the darkness and began shooting at the audience. They were there when a mad man burst into an elementary school and began killing kindergartners. Certainly they were there …

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Posted on January 28, 2018January 29, 2018

Gifted again by the sea

I passed along a copy of “Gifts from the Sea,” to a friend of mine the other day. A few weeks ago we had been at the funeral of a beautiful and dear young man who had taken his own life and as we grieved, we wondered about how his mother, or any mother, could …

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Posted on January 28, 2018January 29, 2018

How I found my singing voice

When I told my husband I was taking singing lessons, he looked at me with eyebrows raised. “Really?” You know the tone. He didn’t mean it in the way of happy astonishment. He meant it more as sarcastic wonderment. This from a man who has joined me singing along to many a classic hit during …

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