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Look on the Bright Side, Mom

May 8, 2011

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Dearest Mother, On this Mother’s Day, I’d like to make the following confessions while urging you to try and look on the bright side. Confession: Remember how the chandelier over the kitchen table had two broken lights for twenty years?  I broke that the day after we moved in by sword fighting with ski poles […]

You’re Welcome, Mom

May 6, 2011

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Parents are supposed to love all their children equally, but my siblings and I knew our parents had favorites.  They always said they loved us the same, and they tried not to let their favoritism show, but still, we all knew…because we listened at the door on Mother’s Day as they criticized the cards we […]