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The Queen of My Self
America’s First Mommies
By
Donna Henes
Whenever I held my newborn baby in my arms, I used to think that what I said and did to him could have an influence not only on him but on all whom he met, not only for a day or a month or a year, but for all eternity — a very challenging and…
Not Our Mother’s Daughters
By
Donna Henes
Since May is Mothering Month, I intend to post a diverse array of articles for the rest of the month, about and for mothers. Not Our Mother’s Daughters by Mari Selby, VA ”And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the…
The Midlife Queen Mother
By
Donna Henes
Since May is Mothering Month, I intend to post a diverse array of articles for the rest of the month, about and for mothers. For the first time in history, large numbers of women of our generation, especially those with careers, deferred starting a family until we were in our late thirties and…
Mother’s Day Proclamation
By
Donna Henes
This is the original Mother’s Day proclamation, written by Julia Ward Howe, famed writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” in Boston, 1870 when she was 51 years old. It was an impassioned appeal to womanhood to rise against war in response to the barbarity of the Franco-Prussian War. She was appalled by…
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