Jo Maeder Interview
Did You Know? “When I Married My Mother” has been named one of the Top 50 Memoirs for the Summer of 2009by the Library Journal Coming Soon: Barb and Laurie interview author, Jo Maeder! We’re still editing.
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Mother’s Day Humor
An oldie but a goodie! Mother’s Day Jib Jab Mother’s Day Card
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day can be stressful… A Bit of Mother’s Day Humor Mother’s Day Thoughts The Challenges of Buying a Mother’s Day Card Forgiving Mom, Your Best Gift for Mother’s Day The History of Mother’s Day Mother’s Day Alert… 5 Tips on how to keep your mother from driving you crazy this one special day…
Exercises That Do No Good
By John Pool, M.D. Climbing the walls Dragging your heels Grasping at straws Skipping your meals Tilting at windmills Spinning your wheels Jumping the gun Passing the buck Kicking yourself Pushing your luck Stretching the truth Running amock Swimming upstream Flying off the handle Falling out Going for broke Heaving a sigh Throwing a fit…
Murphy’s Laws for Mothers
Mothers only offer advice on two occasions: when you want it and when you don’t. If you can’t remember whether or not you called your mother, you didn’t. The motherly advice you ignore will always turn out to be the best advice she ever gave you. Never criticize your mother’s cooking if you expect to…
Is this what we have to look forward to???????
A group of 15-year old girlfriends discussed where they should meet for dinner. Finally, it was agreed upon that they should meet at the Dairy Queen next to the Ocean View restaurant because they only had $6.00 between them and Jimmy Johnson, that cute boy in Social Studies, lives on that street and they might…
An Old Woman, Her Daughter and a Donkey
There was an old woman, her daughter and a donkey. They were going to town and it was decided that the daughter should ride. As they went along they passed some people who thought that it was a shame for the daughter to ride and the old woman to walk. The woman and her daughter…
Love Means Saying You’re Sorry
By Glenn Wolff, Greenwich Citizen How do you handle a situation in which you say something hurtful or inappropriate to your spouse or child? When you are off base in how you react to your child even if provoked? When you receive aninsincere apology from a family member? We all at one time or another…
To Mother, With Love
by J.R. Barcyndy How do you heal 30 years of a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship? This year, I was finally able to appreciate a gift I had received at birth but had never unwrapped. I transformed my relationship with my mother. My mother and I were at odds ever since I was a little girl. Blame…
Biggest Fan and Harshest Critic
Biggest Fan and Harshest Critic: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother Adapted from Nobody’s Baby Now: Reinventing Your Adult Relationship with Your Mother and Father by Susan Newman, Ph.D. One of the most enduring relationships we have is the one with our mothers. At the same time, adult daughters often discover that their mothers…