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  Since May is Mothering Month, I intend to post a diverse array of articles over the next two weeks by, about and for mothers.   Motherhood: Pregnancy over 50 – Part 2 by Cyma Shapiro What strikes me the most is that my initial reaction to reading this was, “Wow! These women are (too)…

  Since May is Mothering Month, I intend to post a diverse array of articles over the next two weeks by, about and for mothers.   Motherhood: Pregnancy over 50 – Part 1 by Cyma Shapiro I’m a little enamored of a Wikipedia category called “Pregnancy Over 50.” In it, it provides a historical timetable…

  An Empty Nest Poem By Mary Jean Iron   Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart.   Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may,…

  From an Empty Nest By Anna Quindlen All my babies are gone now. I say this not in sorrow but in disbelief. I take great satisfaction in what I have today: three almost adults, two taller than I am, one closing in fast. Three people who read the same books I do and have…

  Here is a beautiful response to Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation by one of our own sister Queens.   A MOTHER’S DAY PROCLAMATION By Queen Mary Immaculata Saracino, CO “Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have heart, whether our baptism be that of water or tears!” -Mother’s Day Proclamation,…

  This is the original Mother’s Day proclamation, written by Julia Ward Howe, famed writer of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” in Boston, 1870 when she was 51 years old. It was an impassioned appeal to womanhood to rise against war in response to the barbarity of the Franco-Prussian War. She was appalled by…

Hail Queens! Since May is Mothering Month, I intend to post a diverse array of articles over the next two weeks by, about and for mothers. What an extraordinarily exciting and gorgeous time of the year spring is. Life is bursting out all over. Buds, blossoms, and babies everywhere! Is it any wonder that May…

My dear sister Queens, As you must have noticed, I have been absent for two weeks. My contract with Beliefnet expired at the end of April, but  I am delighted to say that I have been invited to return to this successful blog. The transition between contracts took some time, but now I am back!…

  May Day is an old European spring fertility and copulation festival held in honor of the trees and their mistresses, the virgin vegetation goddesses. Celebrated as Floralia by the Romans, Walpurgisnacht by the Teutons, Whitsuntide by the Dutch, and Beltane by the Celts, it centered on romantic devotions to the nubile goddesses of spring,…

Calling all Queens, Empresses and Ladies in Waiting, The Queen is coming to Syracuse, New York on May 14 for a wonderful day at the fabulous Sanctuary Spa. If you have friends in the area, I would greatly appreciaten your sharing the information with them. Many women who have attended these events in the past…
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