My mom always loved and accepted me as I was
May 9, 2014
My mom always loved and accepted me as I was, and in doing so, she taught me to love and accept others as they are.
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Mother's Day Milestone: Breastfeeding and Fibromas
May 9, 2014
This Mother’s Day marks a milestone for me and my baby—my first (and so far only) child just turned one year old, and I have continued exclusively breastfeeding him for one whole year, in spite of the two fibromas in my right breast.
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My mom taught me these life lessons
May 9, 2014
My mom taught me these life lessons…
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How Does a Mother/Daughter Relationship Heal from Toxic Chemical Exposure?
May 9, 2014
Almost twenty five years ago, as a young woman at the beginning of my social change filmmaking career, I had an experience that pushed me to turn the camera on myself. In 1963, my mother was prescribed the drug diethylstilbestrol (DES), meant to prevent miscarriage and ensure a healthy baby. In...
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My mom is my best friend
May 9, 2014
My mom is my best friend. She gave me the confidence to believe I could do anything.
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Protect and Nurture Our Human Capital
May 9, 2014
My mother taught me that looking after our financial capital is not enough. We need to do everything we can to protect and nurture our human capital.
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My mom has taught me that in life you’ve always got to give of yourself first
May 9, 2014
My mom has taught me that in life you’ve always got to give of yourself first. She pushed through as a single mom to give me the best bilingual education there was. My mom always somehow managed to be there for us, even though she had to make it work. Once she remarried things were a bit different...
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Mother's Day #TBT Tribute to my #MomHero
May 8, 2014
In honor of Mother's Day this Sunday, here's a #TBT to my #momhero and me.
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Oh the Lessons You Can Learn from Recycled Art! (Thanks Mom.)
May 8, 2014
When I was in elementary school, my mom (an artist) and I (decidedly not an artist) entered a recycled art contest being held in a local park.
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Safe and Loved
May 8, 2014
Once upon a time in Seattle, a little girl went downtown with her mother and baby sister and had a grand adventure. They may have shopped at Frederick & Nelson’s. They could have sipped milkshakes in the Paul Bunyan Room. But the excitement meter started spinning like crazy when the car broke...
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