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A Bit of Magic by Teri Stevens
As the soon-to-be mother of twin girls, I joined a Twins Club a couple of months before their arrival. It was a great way to meet other moms of multiples. As a relatively new mom, I joined hoping I...
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The Many Moms of Maya by Steven Friedman
Maya’s had many moms even before Verna died just a little over two years ago. Out of necessity, both Verna and I needed help because Maya was born six days after Verna’s first cancer diagnosis....
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The Change-of-life Baby by Paula Chapman
Buying a pregnancy test at age 47 was not in my plans. I was one and done, as they say. When the clerk at Walgreens asked if I needed help finding something in the store, I choked and asked where...
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Belated Birthday and Get Well Cards By Beth Touchette
It saddened me that my fourteen year old son Walker did not have anything prepared for his sister’s birthday on July 19th, but I figured he had lost track of the time. For two weeks, I made guilt...
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Not Cheating Death By Steven Friedman
We cannot escape death. But should one family have to endure multiples death in less than six months? There is a couple at the retirement community where I work who lost two daughters earlier this...
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I’ve written about this before: Pat Schneider’s Artist and Writer’s Method and the workshop facilitated by Cary Tennis. I go on Thursday nights. A prompt is given. We write for twenty minutes or so....
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Only three days left of the Indiegogo campaign to help fund our Write On, Mamas anthology! “This is me in the rain and I’m smiling,” my five-year-old says about the stick figure with blue circles for...
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X is for an X-it
Photography by Mary Allison Tierney Writing gives me an exit. Sometimes parenthood is overwhelming. The tantrums in Safeway, disgusting diaper changes, arguments with my husband and career stagnation...
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Dedication
Sandra Boynton’s book, Chocolate: The Consuming Passion, starts like this: There are many without whom this book would have been impossible. There are many others without whom it would have been a...
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Multiples Illuminated: Interview with the Editors
Multiples Illuminated: A Collection of Stories and Advice from Parents of Twins, Triplets, and More is an anthology of essays from parents of multiples. In an interview with the anthology’s editors,...
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The Golden Hour
This January, my nineteen year old college sophomore son and I went on a hike to Pierce Point in the Northern Point Reyes National Seashore. The weather was clear, but throughout our hike on the high...
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Writing in Chunks: Write on Mamas Weigh In
Collected and compiled by Marianne Lonsdale Members of my writing group, the Write on Mamas, are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, with lovely sprinkles of moms in other parts of the country. We...
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Beware of what you wish for, you might get it!
Guest Blog by Claire Hennessy’s Mum: Rosemary Taylor On one Mother’s day a friend of mine, Mary, was looking forward, somewhat optimistically, to a good lie-in, a cup of coffee, not before 8:00 a.m.,...
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