In reality, not many people call me “Auntie.” Professionally, people call me “Dr.” or “Professor.” I don’t expect a “handle” from peers my age. But the young people in my family also mostly call me “Imani,” just like I grew up calling my aunties by their first names. ...
In addition to wife of husband who loves her like you see in the movies she is “Mom” to two dogs and two goats and “Aunt Steph,” (by relation) to forty-one nieces and nephews. She is working on a memoir,Doris, Sophia and Me: A Memoir About A Mother Who Didn’t Live Long ...
and called 911; the paramedics arrived and, because my mom’s apartment is so small, they were unable to get the gurney even close to the bathroom, so they positioned it at the end of the hallway and, after loading her up with pain killers to make movement bearable, rolled her onto...
The reason I ask is that I had a chat with a mom a couple of weeks ago who related a story about her ten-year-old daughter returning from a weekend visit with her dad. The girl said her dad started teasing and calling her names when he noticed she had underarm hair. He told her ...
I still found myself___Auntie Zeny. So I flew to visit her in the Philippines. I met some of her kids, now adults. Perhaps due to my guilt for having taken___away from their mom, I expected that I would be___, but they spoiled (善待) me, serving me big portions at every__...
Dabba is an Indian word for “box”, but it refers to all manner of ___ too. The reused dabbas ___ storing leftovers, religious offerings and pot-luck contributions. When I went away to university, my mom used to ___ food and send it to me with strict ___ to wash the dabbas a...
The reason I ask is that I had a chat with a mom a couple of weeks ago who related a story about her ten-year-old daughter returning from a weekend visit with her dad. The girl said her dad started teasing and calling her names when he noticed she had underarm hair. He told her...