How To Use Grace and Compassion When Facing Hard Times

by Cyma Shapiro

In times like these: floods, drought, earthquakes, extreme hot weather, extreme cold, power outages, downed electricity/cable/telephone wires, we are plunged into circumstances that we sometimes cannot overcome. And, to add, we must handle whatever comes our way with our children in tow. I fear that the “same old, same old” is about to be the “new normal” – that is, that nothing as we’ve experienced in our lifetime(s) will be the same for our children. […]

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Menopause: Not Just For Moms Anymore!

by Maggie Lamond Simone

My son was upset the other night because he realized he’d only practiced piano a couple times throughout the week and his lesson was the next day. He was very hard on himself, and I said, “I’m sorry, honey. You’re only nine; mommy needs to remind you more often. That’s part of my job.” […]

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Food for Thought: The Digestion Process

by Aleta St. James

You probably haven’t given your colon a great deal of thought, unless you’ve ever had to prep for a colonoscopy. Now, I’m going to ask you to look at your colon in a whole new way. It’s the key to experiencing true emotional digestion. So what’s emotional digestion? […]

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How To Turn a Crisis Into a Challenge

by Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. and Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.

When a crisis hits – the end of a marriage, the loss of a job, or the death of a loved one – it throws you into a complete tailspin. Suddenly your world is no longer safe and secure. What can you do to pick up the pieces and take the first steps toward living a full life again? […]

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Adoption Tax Credit (In Honor of Adoption Awareness Month)

Dear Reader: With Adoption Awareness Month set for November, we’re posting this in support of the movement and to benefit all those choosing adoption.

Save the Adoption Tax Credit is an effort of the Adoption Tax Credit Working Group—a collaboration of 139 adoption and child welfare organizations dedicated to preserving tax credits for families choosing adoption. What follows is a portion of the letter sent earlier this year to interested individuals, organizations and families. […]

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How It Ends Matters…

by Valerie Gillies

“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.”  Rainer Marie Rilke

There’s an old video game called Prince of Persia.  You progress from room to room, and need to choose, hidden among the clutter — shall I take the flashlight or the dagger? or maybe the rope?  There is no way of knowing what will come next, what you will need.  You just have to do your best, with no time to think, and keep on moving. […]

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A New Crop of Would-Be Single Mothers

by Andrea Lynn

Every month in my Single Mothers by Choice group, members who are trying to conceive using various fertility treatments link up on our internet forum to cheer each other on during the dreaded “two week wait” between their insemination or IVF and their pregnancy test. I am a lurker on this thread now, my days of knocking myself up all in the past. But I’ve been watching the average age of these hopeful women drift younger and younger, with mixed feelings. […]

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The Caregiver’s Club

by Jane Samuel

Recently I read Michael Wolff’s New York article “Mother I Love You” (May 2012) and found myself nodding to every other experience he had penned about his involvement with an aging and terminally ill parent. Two years ago I would have read that article and been an outsider looking in, now I have pulled up a chair at the same table. […]

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