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Solo Mother

July 20th, 2008

single mother, single soldier

An interesting article here about soldiers… our heroine? “Capt. Nissen was a single mom with three kids when she enlisted with the Guard 20 years ago. She needed to support her family and wanted the education benefits the military could give her. Then, she started working full time for the Guard. She was an enlisted […]

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May 15th, 2008

sixty years

My thoughts tonight are with the mothers who lost their homes sixty years ago… and with the mothers who gained a homeland.
I am thinking of my sisters in my heart, the women who claimed me as their own when I lived in Sharjah. Women whose mothers’ mothers hid them down the well when the […]

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February 17th, 2008

A mother worries, you know

I have a pretty morbid imagination if I let it run wild. I think we all do, but we keep our fears under lock and key and padlock and vault and buried chambers deep in the underground of our psyche. Otherwise, we would none of us leave our house. Ever. For fear of being hit […]

By christina -- 2 comments