Tag: times my mom stood up for me
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April 20, 2007 04:42 PM EDT --
I've been meaning to write this for a long time now, ever since Mitch Albom started hyping this contest of Times My Mom Stood Up for Me. I just couldn't get over my anger long enough to put my . . .
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April 24, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
My ears perked up when I heard my mother mention my name to the person on the other end of the phone. Then my stomach dropped.
“Beth told Chrissy she wouldn’t be her friend anymore? Unless . . .
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April 09, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
When I was seven years old, my mother dropped me at the library. She did this every Saturday morning. I was to find a book and take it home for the week.
On this particular week, I was feeling brave, . . .
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April 11, 2007 03:12 PM EDT --
It was 1968. I was ten years old on another cold and windy school day in Chicago.
"Harper Valley P.T.A", was the number one song.
"You better put these on", as she handed . . .
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April 11, 2007 04:35 PM EDT --
From a very early age I began to exhibit symptoms of the mood disorder now known as "bipolar disorder". Thirty years ago though, 9 year olds were . . .
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April 14, 2007 05:40 PM EDT --
The first time my Mom stood up for me, I was too young to remember. I know that it was September 23, 1982, and she had been in the hospital for 22 hours. She was exhausted, hungry, and just . . .
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April 17, 2007 06:30 PM EDT --
I was standing in the lunch line, a freshman in high school, wet behind the ears. I heard her coming from behind. She was loud and boisterous, of another species it seemed. She . . .
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April 25, 2007 10:39 AM EDT --
When I think about the times that my mom stood up for me, nothing specific stands out in my mind. She always let others know not to mess with me as they would have to mess with her first. She drove across . . .
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April 15, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
1997
Beneath the crips white sheets with the royal blue stripe down each side, I grasp the swollen but silky smooth hand of the woman I have loved and admired for almost 40 years. . . .
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April 18, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
Slumping forward in my wheelchair, I drop my head and close my eyes. I’ve been eating, sleeping, and sitting in my parent’s house since my fiancé Mark died. . . .
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April 24, 2007 05:33 PM EDT --
My mother was a very timid and mild person, she was not the kind of person who yelled or argued with anyone. I learned she could be quite surprising. Once when I was only 13 or 14 years old one of . . .
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April 16, 2007 02:08 AM EDT --
When I was in middle school I wasn’t much for ironing. However, I often liked to wear a pressed shirt to school. I could always count on my mom to take care of my ‘light’ . . .
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April 13, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
I can think of plenty of times that my mom stood up for me. She was my mommy; it's what she was supposed to do. Like, when I was 3, for example, and I ran into that corner of the wall in . . .
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April 22, 2007 10:19 PM EDT --
This is going to be my first Mother's Day without my Mom, but her strength and courage surrounds me as it did throughout my life. In 1962 I was 11 years old and dying of, what they thought . . .
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April 26, 2007 12:27 AM EDT --
Coming in from a sunny autumn morning in mid-October, I checked my cell phone for missed calls. Sure enough, one of my old co-workers . . .
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April 25, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
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April 11, 2007 04:05 PM EDT --
In the eighth grade I was given an assignment to design a poster depicting the month of May. It was a Catholic school so the theme was a religious one. I was one of those children who did . . .
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April 13, 2007 03:38 PM EDT --
I don't know where to start my Mom has always been there for me, even though I live with Dad I know I can count on her through good times and bad.
When I first tried sports, T-Ball, she was . . .
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April 14, 2007 04:50 AM EDT --
My Mom stood up for Me more times than I know. I achingly remember sitting at the edge of my Mom's hospital bed looking at her beautiful life annihilated by cancer that stemmed from the very place . . .
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April 17, 2007 02:19 PM EDT --
My mother was a teacher at my high school. While my sister thought that was the worst thing that could happen, I always used it to my advantage. I never dreamed that it would bail me out of . . .
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