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Let’s honor those who may not have taken a traditional path to motherhood, but helped raise, influence or love a child. I know there are those that scoff at the commercialization of Mother’s Day or the forced sentimentalization. Though it’s a celebratory day for most, it’s also a day tinged with grief for those that …

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Pennie Nichols never planned on becoming a mother, but now that she is, she has some great insights on the subject! Read more from Pennie on her blog. For the first quarter century of my life, I boasted that I’d never marry, that I wouldn’t have children. I would write, travel the world. I would be a nomadic wordsmith. …

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As we get older and our parents pass away, Mother’s Day can be bittersweet, as Denise Thomas explains. Visit Denise’s blog, Call the Midlife. I am blessed to be a mother. I have two delightful, kind, healthy children. But every year, around this time, I begin to dread Mother’s Day.   Only my family and …

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