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Five Self-Care Strategies That Aren’t Fucking Mani-Pedis
The current political climate is testing the limits of my emotional resources in ways that I haven’t quite experienced before. I find myself, more than ever, drawing on the practices that help me regroup and recharge so I can participate in life in the ways I want. By Kate McCombs.
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My Last Conversation with My Father
My dad often told us that he assumed that he would have sons, but he ended up with girls. He eventually adjusted. As his firstborn, I became his mission.
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Lost Baby Wildebeest Thinks Cars Are Its Herd
The calf in this video was separated from the rest of its herd and tries to keep up with nearby vehicles instead. By Heather Brady.
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Benjamin Franklin and His Son, Divided by Independence
A new dual biography tells how the American Revolution drove the Franklins apart. By Matthew C. Simpson.
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Why Aren’t You Laughing?
There was my sunny, likable mother, and there was the dark one who’d call late at night. Should we have intervened when her drinking got out of hand? By David Sedaris.
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Losing Gloria
After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go. By Lizzie Presser.
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The Work You Do, the Person You Are
The pleasure of being necessary to my parents was profound. I was not like the children in folktales: burdensome mouths to feed. By Toni Morrison.
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This American Life
Twenty years ago, a brown-skinned boy was shot to death near the Rio Grande. What fate awaits my own son? By Sterry Butcher.
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The good daughter
The truth is I don’t want to be a full-time carer, any more than I wanted to be a full-time mother. And I don’t want to live with my ma any more than she wants to live with me. By Janice Turner.
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My Family’s Slave
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was. By Alex Tizon.
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Hi-Phi Nation, Episode 10: A Better Love
We follow a mother’s love through the stages of life to seek wisdom about what love is, what love does, and why love happens. We follow five mothers at five different stages of motherhood...
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The Hungry Tide
On the coast, nothing is permanent. By John Nova Lomax.
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How to Survive a Visit From Your Mother
Look at you being a thoughtful host and not a teenage girl who erupts at the first sign of criticism!
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In the Shadow of a Fairy Tale
On becoming a stepmother. By Leslie Jamison.
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Good Hair
Going natural despite family and societal expectations. An essay by Kimberly Melton.
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Doll in Shadow
Alzheimer's destroyed my mother's memory, but she remembered the doll. By Maria Browning.
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The Oil Cross: On Being Raised to Wage Spiritual Warfare
Kelsey L. Munger on her childhood and her devout parents, who raised her to fear and battle demons.
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My Mother’s Murder
She disappeared when I was four. It was years before I understood why. By Leah Carroll.
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Leaving Aleppo
My grandfather had a poet’s eye for beauty. Cut off from any means of publication, surrounded by a new culture, what hope did he have? By Pauls Toutonghi.
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Saving Chickens, Saving Myself
The author on depression, her relationship with her aunt, and the importance of being seen. By Christine Hyung-Oak Lee.
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