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Yesterday a CM reader mentioned the debilitating pain and suffering of fibromyalgia. I’m aware of this disease because until recently my older sister has been under the cloud of it for four years–immersed in pain, aggravation, and worry. “If I have to live in this body for the rest of my life,” she once said…

Well, thank goodness for the high-speed Internet access in most hotels these days, for I’m sitting by my lonesome in a Holiday Inn. It’s eleven o’clock at night, and after reading and sipping spring water in the Columbia, South Carolina, airport for five hours this evening, my flight back to New York was cancelled due…

I’ve been following Patty Lemer’s writings on autism spectrum disorders for years. Lemer is the co-founder of Developmental Delay Resources, a non-profit organization integrating conventional and holistic therapies for children with sensory-system challenges. Years ago, without payment or complaint, she spent forty-five minutes on the phone with me discussing therapy options for one son whose…

I spent five days in South Carolina watching my father’s hummingbird feeder and I didn’t spy a single hummer even though my dad’s live-in caretaker said only days ago that she saw seven different ones. I have compensated by researching hummingbird websites, locating brilliant online hummingbird photographs, and finding a helpful map of the ruby-throated…

The Hummingbirdsby Charlotte Smith Minutest of the feathered kind,Possessing every charm combined,Nature, in forming thee, designed A proof within how little spaceShe can comprise such perfect grace,Rendering the lovely; fairy race You’ll find more hummingbird poems here!

This month’s “Vanity Fair” features a long profile of TV personality Anderson Cooper and includes a photograph of CNN’s hottest correspondent working on the bed of a New Orleans hotel room with his portable computer resting on his outstretched thighs. Who would worry about this kind of working position as much as I do? Louis…

In her latest play “The Good Body,” “Vagina Monologue” playwright Eve Ensler lifts her shirt to reveal her own “flabby, post-40 stomach” to a grateful audience. In the June issue of “O,” on page 217, Ensler does the same thing. Her belly is soft, not Kate Moss’s, but it is not an unattractive thing. And…

Mother’s Day is not easy for those whose moms didn’t “deliver,” or for those whose moms are dead. Here’s a user-generated article from Beliefnet.com’s Mother’s Day package, helpful to those feeling distanced from the upcoming commemoration on Sunday. My own mother was wonderfully complicated. Sexy, funny, artistic…clank! Then unreasonable and remote. I had a dream…

I think you’ll like this essay by Katherine Ozment, a mom who reflects on the day her small son served as ring boy at a gay wedding. LiteraryMama.com, the online lit mag that published this piece, is always brimming with great mom stuff. I haven’t mentioned it before because you have to poke around the…

Oh! This is such fun: here’s the link to Shelley Ackerman’s guide to what to give your mother this Sunday, organized by astrological sign.
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