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Breastfeeding Isn’t Always Best

After my first son was born and put on my bare chest in the hospital, he wiggled down and found my breast just like in the videos on You Tube - just like the lactation consultants told me it happens. It was beautiful and perfect. That’s pretty much where he stayed until we went home…

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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…

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Protecting Our Daughters from Campus Rape

In 1983, I was a Harvard freshman. I was happy to be at Harvard, naturally. Harvard was pleased too, mostly because the college, which had welcomed female students for only 11 years, had recently taken progressive steps to protect us from being raped on campus. During freshman orientation, the campus police proudly showed female students all the blue light phones that had been installed on campus walkways. If you ran to the phone at night …

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What I Learned From Losing My Cell Phone

People always say you only learn who your true friends are when you get cancer, or your husband of two decades leaves you for his 26-year-old secretary, or you run over your own dog.I know an easier way to get a fix on your posse. Throw your cell phone out the sunroof as you drive down the New Jersey Turnpike. Leave it wedged in your seat back on the Delta Shuttle. Or, as I …

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What Maisie Knew

In 1897, Henry James published a novel about a young child shuttled back and forth between her irresponsible divorced parents. Although the premise is more than a century old, “What Maisie Knew” is perfectly re-told in modern day New York in a film adaptation that’s both beautiful and hauntingly sad.