Messages from Mom

Reflections of a mom raising children with different abilities …

Rwanda, country of a thousand hills, is beautiful. Chaeli was invited to speak at the 2022 Commonwealth Youth Summit (ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting) in –[…]

Becoming a mom is the second best thing that’s happened in my life … becoming a grandmother has to rank top of the pops!–[…]

Our beautiful firstborn, Erin, turned 28 this month and what a bout of nostalgia these celebrations brought. I was catapulted back almost 3 decades, thinking about how Russell and I always felt that raising Chaeli -[…]

I will forever be grateful to my children for continuously sculpting situations that grew within me an ability to deal with embarrassment and accept that some things are not within my orbit of control -[…]

The power of story-telling has led humankind, across the ages, to understand where we come from, what our cultural traditions are, how our ancestors reacted to crises and generally provides perspective of our  role, place and -[…]

Within each one of us lurks the need to belong. We are inherently social beings and this implies the need to communicate and grow community while we interact with –[…]

Being a mom is the greatest thing I’ve ever done – and I got to do it twice! And then every day for the rest of my life –[…]

Being a mom is the greatest thing I’ve ever done – and I got to do it twice! And then every day for the rest of my life –[…]

Being a mom is the greatest thing I’ve ever done – and I got to do it twice! And then every day for the rest of my life –[…]

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