Category Archives: love of a mother
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the mother of my grandaughter’s mother: a grandmother’s quest to find the right name
Posted on September 2, 2014 by nikkimeredith in family, love of a mother, Mother-Daughter Relationships, pregnancy and childbirth.When my older sister announced her pregnancy, my mother announced, shortly thereafter, that she didn’t want to be called grandma, granny, gran or any variation of grandmother. I assumed it was because grandmother meant old and my mother, who had always shrouded her age in secrecy, didn’t want any clues to her age. She’d been […]
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the path not taken: a mother and her aid worker daughter
Posted on August 22, 2012 by nikkimeredith in family, love of a mother, Mother-Daughter Relationships, odds and sods, unexpected adventures.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both… Robert Frost “Mom, please tell me….if it’s going to be too hard on you, I won’t go.” Caitlin and I were sitting outside at Emporio Rulli, our neighborhood Italian Bakery drinking tea on a shimmering fall day. She was scheduled to […]
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fierce attachments: difficult mothers and the daughters who love them
Posted on October 27, 2011 by nikkimeredith in book reviews, love of a mother, Mother-Daughter Relationships.A few years ago I was at an all women dinner party and we started talking about our mothers. Because it’s Marin County — an area saturated with shrinks of all stripes — there was a lot of shrinkish vocabulary circulating the room. At one point when I talked about my mother and my complicated […]
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it’s true, all men are bastards: when your dog falls in love with a fickle partner
Posted on October 7, 2011 by nikkimeredith in dogs, love of a mother.Alice is in love. The object of her affection is Jasper, a hefty Labradoodle who looks more like a bear than a dog. They are both shaggy but otherwise they are a picture of contrasts. She’s a creamy 25 pounder; he’s chocolate and weighs 75 pounds. Every day when we pass Jasper’s house on our […]
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a douche, a baseball bat and judge judy: renting my house to a delinquent tenant
Posted on October 4, 2011 by nikki in love of a mother.In April of 2008 I quit my job at the local health department in Austin and flew to Nigeria to help track and treat a meningitis epidemic with my on again, off again employer Doctors Without Borders. It all happened so quickly that I was barely able to pack my bag for the summer, much […]
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