Tag: Mother’s Day

  • Mothers in an Industrial World

    Mothers in an Industrial World

    On Mother’s Day, my heart goes out to all the mothers who live in our industrialized world. During pregnancy, we mothers are the home for the new generation. Inside us, new beings miraculously develop from a single cell to a newborn baby. This internal, intensely private home is influenced by all the things around us…

  • For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree

    For Mothers Day – Let Me Be a Tree

    An excerpt from my novel, American Dream. The character Daniel remembers his mother: “If he could go back in time to when Mother was a child and protect her invisibly throughout her life, he was sure that he would do it. He tried to compose a poem for her during the long ride back. Let…

  • Gardens, Libraries, and Mother

    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”  ―    Marcus Tullius Cicero Since I can remember, Mother was always around me making things happen. She was a school teacher, piano teacher, community volunteer, cook, athlete, gardener. She was the powerhouse of the family. Mother made both our gardens and our libraries at…

  • Women Who Inspire

    STEM: Science Technology Engineering and Math, why do we have so few girls who go on to succeed as women in these areas of study? We started out as half the class, and even throughout college and graduate school many of my classmates were women. I’ve been thinking that STEMs need not just freedom, but…