How to Shower Your Kids With Gifts and Not Spoil Them
By Galit Breen When my husband, Jason, and I got married at 23, him, and 26, me, he converted from Catholicism to Judaism and we agreed to raise our children Jewish. As a [...]
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I Said Yes and the World Opened Up
By TLou Connery Ash My lips quiver and my gaze drops as a woman in a vibrant saree passes by. “What would she think? I didn’t want to be rude. I wish I could just let her [...]
The Things Soulmates Are Made Of
By Mary McLaurine It took some time for me to realize you were only in my care temporarily. God, I loved you so much. You filled me with a light so bright I no longer hid [...]
What Buffy Taught Me: Everything I Need to Know About Self-love
I’ve always approached the world head-on. It almost feels as if my whole body is attached to and held up by my jaw–my chin jutting forward in a hyper-vigilant pose of [...]
Kindness Matters | What My Foster Puppy Taught Me About Healing
By Meadoe Hora When his picture came across my Facebook newsfeed, I had a physical reaction to it – the big brown eyes, the floppy ears, the huge, raw burn on his back. The [...]
A Girl On The Inside
by Scout Parker “Mama, how long is my hair now?” Avery asks excitedly, then squeezes her eyes shut. I pour the yogurt container over her upturned head, watching the water [...]
Personal Essay | Boy of Steel
Powerless I cried my way through most of the last Superman movie, Man of Steel. I couldn’t help it. So much of what I saw reminded me of my younger son. Of course, my [...]
Sweatpants & Sanity | 4 Things That Are Not True About Anxiety
For years, I convinced myself I didn’t really have an anxiety problem because I couldn’t easily pigeonhole it into one of the classic anxiety disorders defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. My attacks weren’t about nothing; they were always about death. I could trigger them myself if I thought about death long enough. They didn’t happen very often or over a specific period of time.
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True Stories | I Gave My Baby Up For Adoption And I Think Of Her Every Day
In order to protect the families involved, Avery prefers to remain anonymous. She now lives a happily domestic life with her husband and children, but she has never forgotten [...]
