While watching Grey’s Anatomy this past week, they explored the mother/daughter relationship in one of their ancillary storylines. Certainly an exploration of this relationship comes up from time to time since title-character, Meredith Grey, is the daughter of a famed surgeon with whom she had a challenging relationship. But, in the most recent episode one…
Anyone who is watching the women’s figure skating at the Olympics in Vancouver this week knows about the heartbreak of Canadian skater, Joannie Rochette. Just 2 days before she was to start the competition and perform her short program, her 55 year old mother died suddenly of a heart attack. Joannie made the difficult decision…
I just recently finished reading the book, Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell, on which the movie of the same name is based. Now, this is not a book about the mother-daughter relationship or anything even close, and, yet, there are still several references to the challenges of this relationship. For instance, at one point,…
Wow, I’m not even sure where to start in writing about this book. There’s so much meat to it. I found the subtext of the title (“Making Peace with Mom – Before It’s Too Late”) to be particularly poignant for me since my mom just turned 88, and I used to worry about not making…
With awards season upon us, and the film, Precious getting a lot of attention, now seems like a good time to examine the mother-daughter relationship depicted in this often-times difficult and painful to watch movie. Despite being in a book club for many years, I had never read the novel, Push, by Sapphire, on which…
Elsewhere on this site there is information about how sharing feelings helps to relieve stress, especially for women. We all know how we women share every detail of every situation with our girlfriends but when our men get together, they can sit in silence watching a ball game or chat about mundane things while working…
How best to handle things in the middle of a little (or big) mama drama??? Well, I guess it’s different for everyone, but I know I need my space. I can be patient and hold in my frustrations for a while and then I can feel the annoyances building and building until I feel like…
As long as I can remember, I was always very thin and could eat whatever and whenever I wanted. In fact, I earned quite a reputation for myself in high school for the amount of food I could consume and still be so thin (I think I was actually proud of it). People would always…
There are several types of guilt. Much of what I’ve read, though, seems to focus on the kind that you have when you have actually done something wrong…hurt someone’s feelings, caused an accident, lied, etc. I have no problem with this kind of guilt. You can apologize for the offense, be more careful in the…
“The Sandwich Generation, those caught between their aging parents and young children, includes some 20 million Americans. In this emotionally charged account of family caregiving, filmmaker Julie Winokur and her husband, photojournalist Ed Kashi, expose their personal lives with unflinching candor. Winokur and Kashi uprooted their two children and their business in order to move…