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The Mother Load

I’ve seen it happen to other women. Now I’m starting to do it too. We make a big deal out of multi-tasking computers, but the truth is, mothers have been doing it for centuries. Indeed, the average mother handles 406 things per day. A typical day might start like this: Get up. Get the kids […]

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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

They arrived last month. Evil, seductive things that they are, they started showing up in my mailbox, unbidden, but promising miraculous results and weeks, nay, months of gratification. And I am powerless to resist. I’m talking, of course, about flower catalogues. Spring is finally here in the northern hemisphere, and that means every nursery from […]

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