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The MOTHER Box

For the Unmothered, it’s confusion That comes on Mothers’ Day. Whom should I honor? he shrugs. Mothering is more than giving birth. Aunts, grandparents, and others step in, Yet it’s the Birther gets credit In the Mother box on the tree. (And it begs...

A Sweet Memory

“Come on, Princess. Let’s go get some chocolate bars,” Dad suggested. It was a special treat every now and then on a hot Canadian prairie evening for just the two of us to walk to the store after supper. Before we left we took “orders” from Mom and my sister Lori and...

Time Travel

The secret of time travel is a matter of mind over time. Studying a photograph, I wing through time like Wendy and Peter Pan, flying backward through the century against a headwind to find a lost family. I reach out my arms through the decades to embrace my mother,...

Introduction from new member

Hello fellow writers, I just joined NAMW and would love to “meet” the rest of you. I have signed up for the teleconference on 4/23, have had my book reviewed by member, Sharon, Lippincott, and am about to share my first story in this Cafe. Looking forward...