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Solo Mother

Archive for the ‘helping out’ Category

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November 29th, 2006

Babylune and the single mother — single at birth

Kate over at Babylune has interviewed Gloria Gamat, who writes Cancer Commentary, about what it’s like to be a single mother from the beginning.
Thank you, Kate and Gloria, for such a thoughtful conversation about the real life choices mothers make every day when we’re left to raise our children more or less by ourselves. I […]

By christina -- 3 comments

November 10th, 2006

Living paycheck to paycheck

On my way to my temp assignment, I passed a woman begging on the street. She was settled in an attitude of utter surrender, head bowed, hands gently folded around the corners of her sign that simply read, “Please help.” I dug around in my pockets for my coffee change (went to Juan Valdez […]

By christina -- 7 comments

November 2nd, 2006

My favorite charity.

Running a charity is a full-time job. When you ARE the charity, you unfortunately don’t get paid for the work you do.
I have a few dozen people to thank, and that’s just the first round:
Thank you to:

My parents, who believed in me(even though they didn’t really know I could do it, they believed). And who […]

By christina -- 5 comments

October 20th, 2006

Helping others

Some advice for those of you who are bursting with desire to help someone you know who is having difficulties: ask if you can help. Ask how you can help. If the person is reluctant to suggest something specific, you should do it. It’s very difficult for me to take someone up on a vague […]

By christina -- 2 comments

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