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As Mother’s Day approaches, I’d like to share some of the essays I’ve written about being a mom over the past few years. I often say that my children created me, rather than the other way around, and that raising them and loving them just opened the world to me in ways I could have never imagined before they came into being. I am grateful for that every single day. So here are links to a...

As mother’s day approaches, we all can reflect on how amazing our mothers are. For those of you that have children, we tend to be hard on ourselves on our ability to “mother”. We are our worst critics… Remember to always give yourself a basket of grace. I adore my mother, she is a testament of strength and has a heart full of gold. She has always put others before herself (sound...

I guess when it comes to talking about sex (as opposed to sexually talking while actively engaged), we each have our set of guidelines and rules. For some, the topic is off limits with just about everyone. For others, more so with women it seems, they limit the talk about sex in their lives to a few friends of the same sex. . Of course there may be sexual innuendos, mostly by men, couched...

There is one thing about today's youth that I find amusing and sometimes frustrating. They look at us who are over 65, 70 or 75 and think we have no idea what it is like to be young (even 55 might qualify as being old in this respect). They simply can't fathom us as ever being their age. We are the old folk in their minds. I guess they think we were 65 or more the day we were born. They...