Our Mothers


		Writing My Mother's Story Glimpsing a Vanished World By Juliene Berk I thought of her manuscript often and with so much pain of loss I could not bear to open the manila envelope and see her writing on the pages. It lay in a drawer gathering importance, and waiting for me... 8 Comments



		When and Where? Refusing to Lose my Mother to Alzheimer's By Channah Schaffer There are moments when she is very happy. She is happy in her spacious rooms, happy for the companionship. She calls me Mother now... 15 Comments



		The Gift of the Present By Yehudis Fishman In 1950, my father passed away, but I didn't know about it until the morning of the funeral. I woke up all excited because not only was it my elementary school graduation, but I was supposed to sing a lullaby that I had composed and written myself... 20 Comments



		Walking Mom Home By Miriam Millhauser Castle There was no way I was going to be able to deal with the totality of the situation all at once. I couldn't come to grips with the loss while she was still here. That was too much to ask of myself. I had to stay in the moment, to appreciate every second I still had with her. There would be time later, when it was reality, to face the loss... 7 Comments



		Ilona Bleier Roozman My Mother's Eyes By Catherine Roozman Weigensberg The memories of my mother when she was young, strong and fearless are fading. I'm struggling to remember the spark - a fierceness and Herculean strength emanating from her all knowing eyes... 7 Comments



		A Daughter of Holocaust Survivors by Rosalie Greenberg Looking back on my 58 years as a second generation Holocaust survivor, I am struck by the powerful truth once written by the author William Faulkner "The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." He was and is still so very right... 2 Comments



		Rochel Roth By Dvora Lakein Yitzchak, so grateful for the wife he was bestowed, nominated her for this distinction. "When you have little to give, but don't stop giving, that's special. And that's my wife." 5 Comments



		My Mother, My Child By Edith Brown I am a mother. I'm just a different kind of mother. I did not give birth to my child. She was not young in age, but was nevertheless someone who needed to be mothered... 20 Comments



		A Lesson from My Mother By Tali Gross didn't really understand just then, as my brain was still foggy from my nap, but the one thing I did understand was that something had happened to Mommy, and she wasn't there... 11 Comments



		The Survivor In All Of Us By Catherine Roozman Weigensberg She had kept her age from me all this time and unexpectedly revealed a part of herself which was no longer a taboo subject. It's as if she wanted me to know that she was old and vulnerable now... 3 Comments



		Caregiving Our Parents By Catherine Roozman Weigensberg As recently as ten years ago, when I was still working as a geriatric social worker, I never imagined myself as a full time caregiver... 6 Comments



		Mama's Home By Shirley Coles There is little more painful than having to step up and watch the helplessness and anxiety of a surviving elderly parent... 2 Comments



		A Night With My Mother Six Years After Her Death By Melody Masha Pierson Sitting next to my mother, I realized that no matter how long your life is, it's never long enough to learn all that you need to know... 4 Comments