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Losing Mom

What My Mother Failed to Teach Me

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.09.2013 | Women
Read More: Knitting, Crafts, Teaching, Mother's Day, Mothers, Mothers and Daughters, Mother's Day 2013, Learning to Knit, Losing Mom, Women News
Lita Smith-Mines

Needles were useless in my hands back then, but now, they are a connection to my mother that will never unravel.

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'Pulling the Plug' on My Mom

Daylle Deanna Schwartz | Posted 04.30.2013 | Women
Read More: Women's Issues, Life Support, Mothers and Daughters, Dying, Medical Decisions, End of Life Care, Grief, Loss, Losing Mom, Death, Living Wills, Women News
Daylle Deanna Schwartz

It used to seem futile to me to keep someone alive when they couldn't respond and had no hope of recovery. But that someone had never been my mother.

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The Day I Became Older Than My Mother

Tamsin Eva | Posted 03.04.2013 | Parents
Read More: Therapy, Anniversary-of-Death, Christmas Eve, Grief, Motherless Daughters, Motherless, Mom, Motherhood, Childhood, Losing Mom, Parents-Moms, Parents News
Tamsin Eva

Becoming older than a parent can be a troubling transition. At the most base, mathematical level, it's hard to comprehend how they can still be your parent if you are older than they ever were.

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Sweet Memories

Tamsin Eva | Posted 01.28.2013 | Parents
Read More: Childhood Nostalgia, Motherhood, In Memoriam, Childhood, Nostalgia, Mothers, Losing Mom, Grief, Death, Candy, Parents News
Tamsin Eva

It's uncanny that Mum died the day before we were scheduled to depart. I ate volumes of candy during that long train ride. Nobody suggested I shouldn't. And I've always suspected that a lifelong pattern of episodic over-indulgence began that day.

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