A Mother’s Voice: MOTHERS Act

August 2007 was brutally hot to me, then again I was 9 months pregnant with my daughter. During the previous nine months everything was filled with all the hopes, dreams and excitement that usually comes with the pending new arrival of a child. I could wait to meet this little thing that had grown in [...]

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Browsing the Life Archive

The recently defunct Life Magazine’s collection of photos has been digitized and is online for free access through Google’s image search.  They are available for prints, plus these are all fantastic images. Just looking around stirred up amazement, things have changed so much.  There were some photos, that just needed to be laughed about.  Some of [...]

Baby’s Busy Schedule

As a new mom of a beautiful baby boy, going through the introduction to motherhood I was never given adequate advice. I was told that it will be hard and I will be tired.” No one mentioned being a single mom I wouldn’t sleep literally for the first month of my son’s life. I was [...]