Family Relationships
epub |eng | 2019-10-29 | Author:Jaquira Díaz

The French woman. She was there before I swallowed the first pill. And she would be there always. But all I really knew about her was that she jumped. Later, ...
( Category: Hispanic & Latino October 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-10 | Author:Cathy L. Greenberg, Ph.D

Whose Needs? Females have been caretakers and nurturers for as long as there have been babies. We become fiercely protective of our children—biological or adopted. Pleasing our children—and others—can be ...
( Category: Motherhood October 29,2019 )
epub |eng | 1997-10-25 | Author:Yancey, Philip

The Great Reversal "What doesn't destroy me makes me stronger," Martin Luther King, Jr., had said. Mr. Buckley's peaceful, wrinkled face seemed to prove it. Like a tough old oak ...
( Category: Parent & Adult Child October 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Brodeur

* * * I held my breath the day of the surgery, waiting for a call from my mother, which finally came in the afternoon. “He made it,” she said, ...
( Category: Motherhood October 24,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 1986-10-19 | Author:Minot, Susan

PARTY BLUES put her cheek to the door and pressed it there and rolled her face over the molding then jerked herself back. She'd taken it hard—the discovery of her ...
( Category: Family Life October 20,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-01 | Author:Andrea Wilson Woods

Watching Adrienne and Sharon kick up their heels to the Andrews Sisters’ tune “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” I couldn’t help but smile. I held the video camera as steady as ...
( Category: Siblings October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-11 | Author:Tudor, H G

23 Expect to Enjoy Birthdays They happen every year and you have come to dread the appearance of both your own birthdays and mine. You would much rather neither take ...
( Category: Interpersonal Relations October 19,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Denise Riley

Two years and ten months later: No time at all. No time. Three years after: And by now I’ve stopped making these notes. What follows is a postscript, drawing on ...
( Category: Love Poems October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-30 | Author:Jackie Shannon Hollis [Hollis, Jackie Shannon]

Around me, men, women, young and old sat in chairs, facing each other. Knees close, hands in laps. My partner for this exercise, a woman a few years older, sat ...
( Category: Motherhood October 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Axton Betz-Hamilton

It was still bitter cold the next time Rob visited me in Havana. The Illinois River floated by downtown in sharp chunks of ice. The baseboard heaters in my apartment ...
( Category: Child Abuse October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Ali Wong

CHAPTER 8 Mr. Wong Dear Girls, Whenever possible, I try to coordinate matching outfits for me and your father. We have matching black puff vests, matching Nike sweatpants, matching Allbirds ...
( Category: Motherhood October 15,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Megan Phelps-Roper

* * * In C.G.’s absence, I threw myself back into the work of the church and found an even greater sense of my place within the body. By visceral ...
( Category: Religious October 14,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-25 | Author:Charles L Cole [Cole, Charles L]

On November 25, the last of the boxes from Steve and Katrina’s were back in my house. My dining room was full of boxes and unusable. I had lost count ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Jennifer Gefsky

“I’m all for asking people for help, but problems will arise, and it is very important to be able to solve and work through these problems yourself. No one cares ...
( Category: Job Hunting October 8,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-25 | Author:Molly Millwood, PhD

7 Couples Adrift Having a baby is like throwing a hand grenade into a marriage. —Nora Ephron On a walk one morning with a new friend whose second child is ...
( Category: Motherhood October 8,2019 )