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The Holidays Can Be Hard - when little things feel big
In the grey and grinding months after our daughter, Mercy Joan, died, my mother gave me a set of seven ceramic birds. “A reminder that you will always be a family of seven.” I displayed them on our mantle…poignant, a little cheesy, and unfortunately vulnerable to the daily antics of Magnus.
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What my dying dog taught me
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When the day feels like a wound - Mothers Day sent
A sugary-sweet email landed in my Inbox this week, titled "A Mother's love never fails"...
Really? I thought of the neglected children-turned grown-ups who read that title, feeling it as a gut-punch: the adults still grappling with their mother's cruelty or her addiction.
Because the truth is, Mothers Day can be complicated.
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