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Read more: My mother taught me to work hardWork hard. Always be ready. Look your best. My mother Ester Burns was a Texas farmer’s wife—and a farmer herself. She cooked, sewed and cleaned…
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Read more: Too many things to do? Make a list.Fayteen is busier than usual keeping up with her business and helping her daughter Ranna get the treatment she needs for breast cancer. Plus, she…
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Read more: Thank you very much, motherBe polite. Say please and thank you. Eat your vegetables. Drink your milk. Do your homework. We all learned many lessons from our mothers. If…
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Read more: Give yourself a pat on the backWe often berate ourselves when we don’t do what we think we’re supposed to do. We feel guilty when we overeat or when we argue…
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Read more: Too many things to do? Take a nap.Pressed by end-of-the-semester papers and finals, my son Jay, who is a junior in college, announced: “I have too many things to do.” “Work hard.…
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Read more: What do you do when you lose self-control?In our last blog post, I confessed that I recently lost control and ate almost a whole box of Samoas, my favorite kind of Girl…
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Read more: The good news and the bad newsThe good news is that I practiced moderation during a recent weekend trip to Tulsa. I didn’t eat donuts for breakfast, the wonderful bread and…
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Read more: Mother, daughter and biographerRebecca Skloot writes about the amazing story of a poor black woman and her cancer cells in her book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.…
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Read more: Why do we buy what we buy?Marketing plays a big role in what we buy and what we think about ourselves , concludes Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter—Dispatches…
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Read more: What kind of room have you created?Emma Donoghue writes a chilling story in her book Room. It’s about a young woman and her son who are kept prisoners in an 11-by-11…