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How will the pandemic change you?
Growing up, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house. They lived about 10 minutes away and their place was my second home. I went there after school as a kid, and in high school, nearly every night to call my friends who lived in their phone prefix. In those days, long-distance was…
Mom Spends $100K In Surgeries To Look Like Jessica Rabbit
We all have our ideals of beauty... those role models we wish we looked like... Some of us are content to sigh while accepting what we are. This one mother decided she wasn't about to accept anything. She wanted to look like Jessica Rabbit (from the cartoon "Roger Rabbit") no matter the cost. Bee Cameron…
A Mother’s Love: Parenting Through Grief
Love is a phenomena that transcends time, space, and even the known realms of existence. A mother’s love is a love above all forms. A reservation of the purest forms of hope, joy, and peace. It’s something that you cannot know unless you experience it for yourself. It’s something that, if you haven’t, you don’t…
Breastfeeding and The Office: A Marriage Made in, Well, Not Heaven
I am quite sure the bartenders at the Cellar Bar had no idea what I was handing them. Maybe they thought it was a new type of mixer. But whatever they thought (they didn’t ask), I am positive it was the first, and probably last, Medela pumping bottle of breast milk that they ever put…
Stop, Look and Listen to Your Child
Last week, my five year old asked me to help him fix a broken, dead papyrus stalk with tape. Trying to build communication between father and son, I sent him in that direction. That wont work, forget it, was the brick-wall response he received. I took my son to the garage to get the tape, knowing that the task was fruitless. Or was it?