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Mother’s Day is not easy for those whose moms didn’t “deliver,” or for those whose moms are dead. Here’s a user-generated article from Beliefnet.com’s Mother’s Day package, helpful to those feeling distanced from the upcoming commemoration on Sunday. My own mother was wonderfully complicated. Sexy, funny, artistic…clank! Then unreasonable and remote. I had a dream…

I think you’ll like this essay by Katherine Ozment, a mom who reflects on the day her small son served as ring boy at a gay wedding. LiteraryMama.com, the online lit mag that published this piece, is always brimming with great mom stuff. I haven’t mentioned it before because you have to poke around the…

Will David Blaine’s breath-holding stunt encourage others to explore the yogi-like ability to slow down the heartbeat, still their metabolism, and stay super calm? Or is there a masochistic character to the man’s pranks? Is he shortening his life? Or is the endurance artist like a moth that must fly into the flame? I’m thinking…

We let the young Chatterings stay up the other night to see if David Blaine could hold his breath under water for nine minutes (who knew ABC’s program would run on until 10 p.m.?). Next morning: uh-oh. Younger Chattering woke up and announced he still had some homework to finish. Actually he’d told me that…
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