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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 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…

  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…
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