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  • 100 words or less: Motherhood

    Happy Mother's Day to mothers everywhere! Whether you're celebrating your first mother's day with a tiny newborn, or Skyping with grandchildren around the world, motherhood is a bond we all share, regardless of age, language and culture.When I gave birth to my first child nine years ago, I was just

  • User Post: Passing on a Legacy of Fear

    Before I had kids I thought a lot about what I would pass on to them. Would they have my eyes? Their father 's drive? Or their grandmother's artistic sense? Would they love to travel? To eat? Would they get cancer?I never thought that my legacy would be fear. When I was a little girl, when I was old

  • Too Scared to Fight Like a Girl?

    I've seen breast cancer try to beat generations of women in my family. My mother. Two of her sisters. My grandmother. All were robbed of some or all of their breasts. All faced their mortality much too early, and came out fighting. All of them beat cancer by fighting it tooth and nail, fighting like

  • Nothing Boring about Family Dinner

    We never used to eat dinner as a family. The kids would eat alone, a messy affair with corn flying through the air and half-eaten chicken nuggets hidden under the rug while I ran in and out of the room, shouting at them to "eat, eat, eat!" It wasn't pretty, definitely not a Norman Rockwell picture,