Mother's Day
August 2, 2009
- Family MamaPosted at 06:59 AM on May 15, 2007 You know, this past week has been amazing, and in many ways, life altering. I want to tell everything that happened, to leave nothing out, but as I sit here, back at home after the literary conference in New Orleans at which my novel Miss McGhee was launched, I find myself thinking of very personal things.There's a page of acknowledgements in ...
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May 11, 2009
- My novel, THE SWORD SWALLOWER'S DAUGHTER, yes, the one I'm still revising, draws much from my childhood. My father really was a sword swallower and my mother was a closet chanteuse who played piano and sang with a voice that rivaled the divas of her day. In fact, when I hear Susan Boyle, I think of my mother. She had that kind of voice, but zero confidence.The photo below is my mother playing and ...
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May 10, 2009
- Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, daughters, and sons! (Hope I'm not leaving anyone out)It's time to salute the best mom's in literature, films, and television. The moms we loved, the moms we admired, the moms that made our hearts sing. Join me, won't you.... Marmee March, Little WomenIt's not easy for Marmee March; be it her husband fighting in the Civil War, Beth sick with Scarlet ...
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May 10, 2009
- "There exists for children no better refuge than a mother's hug." Irakli Anagnostopoulou President, Union of Retirees of I.K.A., Southern Chania Published in the Xaniotika Nea, Saturday, May 9, 2009
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May 10, 2009
- To Mother by Ilias Stamatakis Every Mother, my friends, is like Mother Mary. If life has rain showers,Sun, shines in Her heart!! Inside my Mother's heart nests love, which in life's shadows appears as the brightness of the sun! In life's sea of waves Mother is the lifeboat. Her heart beating with chimes of Easter bells! Canaries lightly singing, the ...
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May 10, 2009
- I'm in Deep France and miss talking with my daughter and my husband. Can't reach them on Skype (both are offline), and can't figure out how to use the damn cell phone. I'm a techno-idiot!This morning there was folkdancing in the town square, and my husband is one of the best and liveliest dancers in the world. I sent him oodles of photos. How I wished he was there! The musical ...
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May 10, 2009
- All these years, I've been wrong about Mother's Day. I thought it was invented by Hallmark, or some version of a greeting card company. I thought it was made up so that merchants could sell flowers and chocolate and the pointless cards that line the shelves at this very moment. But I was wrong, buying into an urban legend, the type that Americans are so fond of. This morning, I clicked ...
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May 10, 2009
- RED MITTENS FROM WISCONSINIt's Mother's Day. That's a good thing, but it's not what touched me deeply today.My car was in dreadful shape, but being in a somewhat limited financial condition I had no actual hope of bettering my transportation options in the near future.One of my sons and his wife had, for some time, been on the lookout to improve this state of affairs for me, and had been ...
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May 9, 2009
- I would like to say Happy Mother's Day to all of my wonderful comrades out there. A mother truly deserves this day. I never understood until I was a mother myself what Mother's Day was about because my mother was dead. Actually, Mother's Day used to always be a terribly sad day for me. It reminded my that I was a motherless daughter and had no one to give a hug, a kiss, some flowers, and a ...
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May 9, 2009
- What can The Story WomanTM do but offer you food for thought? Stay with me now, I'm going to tell you about something that is enjoyed like the finest wine and savored like the darkest chocolate and it can make Mother's Day anytime of the year - really. It is a gift that will indulge her sensibilities by honoring her, expand her knowledge base by showing what you remember about her, and support ...
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