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Lessons from BabeMay 2012
Mom and I were recently discussing why some folks are so unhappy and cranky, and I asked her, “Okay, so why do you think I turned out so happy?” “Because you take after me,” she said. That’s when the idea of Lessons from Babe was born. I’d been a ‘60s, feminist-aspiring, bellbottom-wearing daughter, who was sorely disappointed with my low-achieving … Mom’s PlaceSeptember 2011
When I was young, maybe seven or eight, my girls’ club made terrycloth covers, with dog faces, that fit over bars of Ivory soap. When we distributed them to a nursing home, the residents’ naked neediness as they reached out for their silly hand-made gifts – their scrawny outstretched arms demanding that their little visitors enter their rooms and stay awhile … |
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