Perhaps we all need to take a step back and remind ourselves that we all arrived on this earth through a mother -- and the basic humanity deserved by any visibly pregnant woman needs greater attention.
Bonnie St. John | Posted 05.14.2012
We seldom celebrate the kind of moral and personal courage that Maria von Trapp exhibited. But that's the kind of 'happily ever after' that resonated for the battle-weary single mom who raised me.
Rhonda Britten | Posted 05.14.2012
The power of being fearless is not reserved for the lucky ones. Anyone can harness its power. You just have to decide right now that your life is your life, no one else's, and that you are fully responsible for that life.
Donna Henes | Posted 05.13.2012
This Mother's Day, let us toast our universal Maternal Creatrix, our mutual Mother Earth, our biological mothers, and our own mothering impulses with the nurturing milk of human kindness.
Huffington Post | Brennan Williams | Posted 05.12.2012
Showcasing your love for mom can come in many different forms, whether it’s spending quality time or providing a sentimental gift, there’s no limi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 05.13.2012
As the rest of the nation celebrates the importance of motherhood Sunday, thousands of young Americans will, for the first time, be without their moms...
Quora | Posted 05.11.2012
This question originally appeared on Quora. By Shannon Turlington, Mother This photo is designed to be shocking and (pardon the pun) titillating. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 05.09.2012
When it comes to giving -- or receiving -- Mother's Day flowers, it's supposed to be the thought that counts. And of course it does. But at the same t...
Meg Pier | Posted 05.09.2012
Just as the sparse landscape of the Sinagua is a monument to survival skills and, ultimately, surrender, my mother's legacy will include rising to challenges and bowing to the inevitable.
The Huffington Post | Jessica Misener & Michelle Manetti | Posted 05.12.2012
Is YOUR mom fashion savvy? This Mother's Day, we were inspired by Piper Weiss' amazing My Mom The Style Icon blog and her corresponding book. (She'...
Melanie Notkin | Posted 05.09.2012
Babies are born from the womb. Maternity is born from the soul. There are many ways to mother.
Cory Zacker | Posted 05.09.2012
When my son was younger and deep in the throes of a textbook Oedipal Complex, he looked at me with all sincerity and said, "Mom, why did you marry Dad? Why didn't you wait for me?"
Ethlie Ann Vare | Posted 05.03.2012
My mother looked like Grace Kelly in her prime and acted like Shirley MacLaine in Terms of Endearment
Michelle Persad | Posted 05.02.2012
I don't even mind that some people, when informed that I'm my mother's child, might think I'm adopted. I don't mind that it looks like she chose me.
Jane Atkinson | Posted 05.01.2012
If we're not careful, our essence and identity can become absorbed by all of our titles: wife, mother, friend, daughter, employee, coach.
Leslie King, LCSW | Posted 04.30.2012
In essence, parents would do well to understand that teenagers develop execution function capacities at different times and in individual ways.
Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 04.30.2012
The patriarch is not only external but exists inside of all of us. Until we can transmute the inner authority that denies quantum leaps generated by multiple expanding consciousness, we cannot embody a new cyclical paradigm. The artist shows us the way.
Dr. Peggy Drexler | Posted 04.30.2012
We as a culture have held fast to the idea that we need to protect the boundaries between male and female. This is wrong, and even dangerous. Instead, we need to be reframing the discussion, and asking: What makes a boy a boy?
Rachel Sherman | Posted 04.23.2012
Even though you can both give your hurt the same name, it doesn't make you any less alone.
Jennifer Handford | Posted 04.23.2012
At this moment in time, I'm an author, a job title as inspired and dreamy as a veterinarian, fire fighter, plumber, or Dolly Madison truck driver.
Elise Sax | Posted 04.16.2012
When did this happen? The last I looked, I was pretty much my own self with my own eyes and nose. But now, my mom has taken over, and my cheeks, my chin, my whole profile is hers.
Carol Smaldino | Posted 04.14.2012
It's called empathy. And without it some votes will be won, and some women will be seduced by one leader or another saying, for the most part that he ...
Posted 04.14.2012
In collaboration with activist organization Every Mother Counts, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros released a song that lead vocalist Alex Ebert wr...
Rachel Sherman | Posted 04.12.2012
When I was a baby, my mother told me that my father fantasized that once I could talk, I would tell them all of the things I had been thinking from the time I could not.
Posted 04.11.2012
Georgia mother Jan Baird said she found a rifle bullet inside her 6-year-old son's new baseball cleats, WTVM reports. The woman said her son had t...
Robin Wilson | Posted 05.27.2012