There are certain truths we hold dear during the holidays. It's a time for kindness, for togetherness, and for extending a ...

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The author (right) and her mom at her elementary school, where her mom frequently volunteered (2009). Photo Courtesy Of Jacqueline LeKachman A few weeks before moving out of my parents’ house for ...

My mother and I were always close and I saw her as my best friend. Her health issues began to get complicated at the same time I my job was becoming more stressful. I decided to make a change so I ...

My mother, Donna, died unexpectedly earlier this month. On a recent Tuesday morning, she got up as normal, and even went to the salon. That evening, she was in the hospital. Thirty-six hours later, ...

A 36-year-old mom is asking other moms when she'll begin to feel like herself again after having kids In a post on the Parenting subreddit, the original poster (OP) revealed that she's a first-time ...

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This Election Day will be a big one for me personally: It’s exactly the 10th anniversary of my mother’s death, I’ll be six months pregnant with my first child, and our rabidly partisan politics will ...