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How I came to appreciate my father’s weekly letters

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They arrived. One after the other. In snowstorms. On holidays. From foreign countries. In succession—as inevitable it seemed as midterms and finals. By David Joseph

September 24, 2019 Family

Lice helped my family in a time of sorrow

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I’d been craving more one-on-one time with my kids for so long and now, thanks to those pesky parasites, I had it. By Kate Lemery

September 18, 2019 Obstacles, Persistence

How my baby changed the way I look in the mirror

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My eyes focus on my abdomen, the bulge pregnancy has left behind. My inner critic opens her mouth…but then I take in the whole picture. By Chrissie Dunham

September 12, 2019 Family

First day of school, first miscarriage

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Hearing “nonviable” is heartbreaking. Having to ignore that in front of 32 smiling second graders is even harder. By Caitlin Cherry

September 10, 2019 Obstacles

After the baby, a marriage lost then found

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We would take a million pictures of our child but none of us. Forget to schedule date nights because we never needed them before. By Elizabeth Newdom

September 5, 2019 Family, Obstacles

How to give love as a mother when you are an unloved daughter

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“Why is she like that?” my son asks. I hesitate. There’s no denying my mother’s passive aggressive disdain towards me. By Elizabeth Maria Naranjo

September 4, 2019 Obstacles, Persistence

How siblings help my son with autism thrive the most

One boy looking on as another kid hangs on to a swing with arms with autumn leaves on the ground
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Is there any better teacher of life for a kid on the spectrum than a brother or sister? By Marya Markovich

August 29, 2019 Obstacles

Learning again how to pass the time

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Cell phones do not work here, and on a good day it takes only ten minutes to open email. By Mindy R. Roll

August 22, 2019 Culture, Persistence

Helping my five-year-old navigate friendship

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How do I deal with my child’s social issues when I still haven’t worked through my own? By Amy Kline

August 20, 2019 Obstacles

Poetry | Housewife

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“You’re a different person,” my husband said. This was years ago now. Thank god he was right. By Samantha Shanley

August 13, 2019 Obstacles

What my frozen embryos mean to me

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They are part of my life’s topography. Tiny specks on my map of choices, loves and losses, hurts and heartbreak. By Jordan Namerow

July 31, 2019 Obstacles

We live as we dream, alone

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“I built it myself. What do you think?” My father didn’t look up, he just took a drink from his bottle and kept staring at the television. By John Graham

July 30, 2019 Obstacles

Seeing my daughter in a new light at the preschool dance show

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There’s Cooper, she’s at least a full head shorter than every other child on stage. This causes both attention and confusion. By Carina McLaughlin

July 25, 2019 Obstacles

How to find resilience after losing your mom

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Losing my mother, especially at a young age, was like losing my compass. By Gina Luongo

July 23, 2019 Obstacles, Persistence

The watershed moment I realized I wanted to be a mother

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I wonder now why it came as such a shock to me that friends would get married, that wild nights out would become sleepless ones at home with a baby. By Claire Lynch

July 18, 2019 Obstacles

The day I helped my mother pick out a wig

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My mom took off her scarf and revealed her bald head. We all braced ourselves, but the woman at the shop didn’t flinch. By Kandace Chapple

July 16, 2019 Obstacles, Persistence

Mothers are experts at the art of reinvention

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“No offense Mom,” my oldest said to me a few years ago. “But you could have been so much more.” By Laura Pochintesta

July 9, 2019 Family, Persistence

The year my daughter wanted an accident as her bedtime story

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We had a ritual that I honored until she outgrew the need for it. It occurs to me now that I needed it just as much as she did. By Tracy Tambosso

July 3, 2019 Family

How to live happily when there are no happy endings

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On carrying grief forward, not getting over it. A Motherwell interview with Nora McInerny.

July 2, 2019 Culture

How to talk with my daughter about anti-semitism

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My parents grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. Neither one of them knew how to tell me what had happened, so instead they said nothing. By Elissa Jacobs

June 27, 2019 Culture, Persistence

The night my daughter was born

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I always thought depression came like a fog. Postpartum depression came on differently, like an 18-wheel truck slamming into a cement wall. By Laura Cline

June 25, 2019 Obstacles

Let all mothers in, it’s hard enough to be a parent

I worry with the other moms about whether we’re good at it. Raising another person. By Marni Berger

June 20, 2019 Obstacles

Motherwell talks to bestselling author and therapist Lori Gottlieb

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So much of who we are has to do with how we think about our own parents and our own childhood.

June 19, 2019 Books, Culture

How to help kids with grief when an adult relationship ends

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I didn’t have my therapist hat on when my son went through his grief—I was just his mom, muddling through it alongside him. By Lori Gottlieb

June 19, 2019 Culture, Obstacles

My six-year-old still doesn’t know about his birth father

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I keep waiting for the perfect moment to tell him about his true relationship to Dave. I hope he’ll understand. By Philip Langdon Ross

June 13, 2019 Culture

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