Featured Sister’s Letters

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Doing It Alone

  Adjusting to motherhood is never easy. Natural, yes, but not easy. One of the hardest times is a few days after birth, when most women“crash,” or...

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Being a Stand Up Girl

All you brave Stand Up girls are my inspiration, these days. I love to read your letters and hear your stories, which are just amazing. It takes a...

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Again. Really?

I did things in a rather conventional order.I graduated from university, got married and hoped for children.None came.So my husband and I adopted a...

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Drawing the Line

  Some people have been wondering what I mean by "unspoken set of rules." In my last column, I mentioned that having a set of rules for yourself...

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Politics Tore Us Apart

 She's revered as a trail-blazing feminist and author Alice Walker touched the lives of a generation of women. A champion of women's rights, she has...

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Mom To A Teenage Mother

 My eldest daughter had been rebellious for several years so when she told me that she was pregnant at seventeen, my reaction was calm. It was the...

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