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Beneath the Surface

Subscribe to Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers and see why we’ve been receiving awards for literary excellence since 2000. By Francesca Kaplan Grossman The first time I found one, I had...

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The Right Time for The Talk

By Ellyn Gelman I sat next to my mother at the kitchen table, our eyes glued to the bulky television on the Formica countertop. It was the summer of ’78 and the lead story that morning was the birth of...

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Sweet Child of Mine

Last week I waited in front of our local pool club for my 15-year-old daughter Emily to emerge. Em’s my oldest; after a ten day community service trip to Costa Rica, she’s home for two weeks then off...

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Leaving

By Nina Sichel I. I have come full circle, and it is nearly time to leave.  I arrived here two decades ago, just months from the birth of my first child, and now the youngest is ready for college, my...

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Mothers at the Microphone: Sharing Our Stories

Imagine the most loving, honest conversation you’ve ever had with a best friend and multiply that feeling of connection a thousand times and you could be me, last Thursday at the Listen To Your Mother...

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Mothers and Fathers

By Lauren Apfel When I think about what a mother is, I tend to think about what a father is not. My mother was day in and day out, my father was summers and some weekends. My mother was the endless...

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What You’re Left With When She is Gone

By Ronit Feinglass Plank In a box of old things my sister recently sent me I found a photo of my mother from when I was thirteen and my sister was ten, when Mom had just come back from her second cult...

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Shorts Story

By Tyann Sheldon Rouw Early Thursday morning, I awoke to a shadowy figure leaning over my bed, wielding a big pair of black scissors. They weren’t scissors one used to cut paper. No, they were the...

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Grandma’s Secret

by Kate Washington When she was three, my daughter Lucy was interested in many things: fairies, swimming, “Call Me Maybe,” ice cream, the alphabet, families, death. The last two interests led her to...

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The Good Mother

By  Sarah Minor When I found out I was pregnant, the first person I told was my mother. At least, that’s what I told her. I called my mom on my drive back to work after my first doctor’s appointment....

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Cancer Mom

By Kristen Brookes I am a cancer mom. Like a gymnastics mom or a swim mom, but different. At gymnastics, we would all huddle around the window into the gym, admiring the strength, grace, and...

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Connect

By Sarah Layden My brain is a box of wires. Some connect to appropriate portals, some fray at both ends. I sort the tenth tragic email update from a friend to the folder marked Baby. I begin to reply...

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Transitional Objects

By Lauren Apfel This is the story of two blankies, Rough and Purple. Blankies that came into a house, impossibly soft, like the fur on the back of the softest animal you can imagine. Blankies whose...

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Mountains to Climb

by Julie Polhemus I. “I want to work mountaineering courses,” I told my husband. He smiled. I had just summited Eldorado Peak, heavy with spring snow, in Washington’s North Cascades. I had even led the...

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Disbelief, Suspended

By Kelly Garriott Waite Evenings, just prior to giving each of the three door handles (one front, two back) a final twist and firm tug, to reassure myself that the deadbolts were engaged, I would...

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Mothers at the Microphone: Sharing Our Stories

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Disbelief, Suspended

By Kelly Garriott Waite Evenings, just prior to giving each of the three door handles (one front, two back) a final twist and firm tug, to reassure myself that the deadbolts were engaged, I would...

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The Joyful Mysteries

By Maria Massei-Rosato Prayer beads are used by many different religions, including Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Catholics use a form with 59 beads and pray the Rosary. I don’t remember owning a set...

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The Decision

By Francesca Grossman My childhood stairs were carpeted red with little black flecks. The rug was threadbare in places, and I spent hours every day pulling the little wiry strings back to reveal more...

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The Dance

By Allison Slater Tate Though I think I have blocked most of middle school out of my consciousness in the interest of self preservation, I do still possess a few vivid memories 28 years later. Among...

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