The trend has been building for years, including the cheeky “The More You Can Ho” music video produced by Charles Sanchez and Tyne Firmin (Merce the Series) a couple years back and continuing through the current POZ Award-winning YouTube series, “Tub Talks with Damon,” in which therapis...
Guest post by Belle Thomas, webmaster of oldfashionedgirl.blog A few years ago, when visiting Louisa May Alcott’s home in Concord, Massachusetts, I discovered a book called The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick. According to the summary on the back of the book, the story...
mother’s quick stitches of her son’s trousers as he runs late to school. I anxiously returned to my main therapist to share this enlightened moment, and it went well. I followed up the next day with a thank you letter, for patience, for hearing me, for the apology I deserved. And...
May he and our Mother rest in eternal peace in this world and the next – and open the highest gates for Heaven for them – Amin Amen I have reproduced a few articles where my late parents are mentioned. Otherwise it will be a very big book! A Great Personality who was not afraid in...
That one night – when mother insisted I sleep next to her in my father’s stead, both dad & me stayed awake the whole night! Fast forward to 1989. I was 12 & speaking with father for the last time in my life. “If you leave mother behind, I stay with her“ ...
It’s nearly impossible to talk to my mother anymore. She barely knows where she is or what is happening around her, and I can hardly understand most of what she says. She mumbles, she says things that don’t make sense to me, that seem to have a place only in her own mind, and...
When you are the mother of the groom on your son’s wedding day you are like a gallbladder necessary to some extent but if you cause trouble then out you go I wanted to remember my place. The day was so NOT about me! It was about the Lord, my boy and his stunning bride!
The very next blessing that Mary had- / And no words pleased His mother more- / To truly say to to her special Son / She’s never seen His like before. The very next joy that Mary had / Was to see him perform a miracle or five, / To witness her Son Jesus / Literally and upli...
I rebuked the thing and commanded in the Name of Jesus Christ that it die and be flushed from the body of the lady. We prayed very aggressively against the thing, she, and I. Soon I notice that the thing was not moving. Shortly after that I notice that it could no longer be felt....
Except for my engagement ring, all of the jewelry I wore on wedding day came from my grandmothers. When my mom’s mom passed away the week after 9/11, she wore only her wedding ring from 1930. My mother let me keep it after her funeral, and I very rarely take it off. For more ...