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I Don’t Want To Be This Mother

a child's mobile of stuffed bears

Don’t do it, I reprimand myself in my head. She’s fine. Don’t do it. She just moved a little. Don’t do it. Embarrassingly, she has not one but two life-detecting monitors (a motion sensor pad under her mattress that came with the video monitor, and a Snuza clipped on her diaper that is supposed to beep should she stop breathing.) Don’t do it. Neither is going off. Don’t do it. She’s fine, she’s fine, she’s fine… Read more

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The Untold Story Of Memorial Day: Former Slaves Honoring The Dead

The Untold Story Of Memorial Day: Former Slaves Honoring And Mourning The Dead By Sarah Lazare Unsplash/Gabby Orcutt The African-American history of the federal holiday has been nearly wiped from public memory. Union General John Logan is often credited with founding Memorial Day. The commander-in-chief of a Union veterans’ organization called the Grand Army of the Republic, Logan Read more