Sentences with phrase «stories about mothers»

Sheryn is also a contributing author for A Kind of Mad Courage: Short Stories About Mothers, (S) mothers & Others, a gorgeously eclectic collection of tales that will make you laugh, cry, and truly appreciate the «mad courage» of motherhood.

Over the years there have been countless stories about mothers having their breastfeeding images removed from Facebook.

I heard so many stories about mothers getting this overwhelming «in love» feeling after giving birth to their babies, and I really hoped that a natural birth would accomplish that for me.

We all know the stories about mothers who tried for years and finally got their bundle of joy, or parents who got lucky the first month they decided to start trying.

It's filled with stories about mothers and daughters; I wrote one for each of my four daughters and my mother.

But in the end, it's a story about his mother - in - law that offers the best one.

I liked her stories about her mother and her family, as she clearly appreciated them very much, but the folksy gimmick of having a business lesson followed by a memory started to grate after the tenth lesson or so.

I'm honestly confused by your second story about your mother.

Maybe you think your girlfriend's story about her mother is completely boring, but there's a reason she's telling you.

Just one story about Mother Teresa I have never forgotton which I think works here to show how the palliative care dovetails with spiritual care and how this matters:

Rafa retells a story about his mother yelling at him while he was manager of Liverpool.

I heard a story about a mother of twins who was threatened to have her babies removed if she didn't supplement them.

Her stories about her mother and her children were so inspiring.

From Kendra Wilkinson's flashy Stokke Xplory to Drew Barrymore and Jenna Bush Hager's UPPAbaby, every stroller tells a different story about the mother pushing it.

The April issue of Vogue magazine prominently features a cover story about a mother who puts her...

I love the story about your mother and your sister!

In its use of flippant humour to deal with dark subject matter, the film has a similar tone to that of the satirical 1990s Holly Hunter drama, The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader - Murdering Mom (based on a similar story about a mother accused of having her daughter's classmate bumped off to improve the daughter's chances of making the cheerleading team).

Many watching the film find in it a redemptive story about a mother's relationship with her child.

Do you feel that with «Lady Bird» — a movie written and directed by a woman, focused on a female - centered story about a mother and a daughter — this year in particular has had extra power?

In the film, the whole Ya - Ya concept doesn't really hold much significance at all; it's just a side quirk in an overly familiar story about mother - daughter understanding — or, should I say, misunderstanding.

There's such a powerful story about a mother buried inside of this film, and it's quite enchanting to see that portrayed with a thoughtful delicacy.

I think many people can relate to the themes of The Forgetting Time — ultimately this is a story about a mother and a child, and how far we'd go to help those we love.

Munro says that the turning point for her writing came in 1959 when she wrote «The Peace of Utrecht», a story about her mother becoming ill from Parkinson's when Munro was 12.

Strout went on to win the Pulitzer Prize with her third book, Olive Kitteridge, but her debut, a sensitive story about mothers and daughters, marked her as an author to watch.

She says that the turning point for her writing came in 1959 when she wrote «The Peace of Utrecht», a story about her mother becoming ill from Parkinson's when Munro was 12.

«Drowning is a story about mothers and daughters and those who have loved them,» says the author of this title.

Nicki provides unique insight into being part of a large Italian - American family afflicted with the BRCA2 gene, and shares poignant stories about her mother and aunts who faced breast and ovarian cancer with extraordinary grace and courage.

Then the boy's uncle told Calvin a story about his mother that he'd never heard.

His first major breakthrough came at age 18 with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.

Sura told me stories about her mother's capacity for healing, and how her mother overcame shingles while Sura's uncle, a doctor, didn't.

Adam Mosseri, Facebook's head of news feed, in recent days wrote unprompted to a BuzzFeed editor and to its chief executive reminiscing and telling a story about his mother.

Not exact matches

When I met Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) at a book signing, I shared a story with him about a signing I did at which the only person who showed up was my mother.

«While Americans have become less judgmental about working mothers, this is a story about taking one step forward and one step back,» she says.

As a child, I often filled in these blanks with my very active imagination, and my poor mother would have to refute yet another wild story of mine about how I'd come to live with my family.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

I wish you all the best in your future endeavours and I know I will continue to hear more fascinating stories about you from your mother.

His story is similar to other myths about gods bearing children to mortal mothers.

Towards then end, when we knew there would be no more treatment, I would listen to my mother and father talk about their life together and recall funny stories.

Thank you for this story, it too made me cry, for I believe in my savior Jesus Christ and this story of LOVE is what it is all about,, Thanks again, Imiss my mother and father terribly but this story brought back great memories.

That's why we have these old stories about wolves chasing little girls, step - mothers planning the death of young innocent ones, and little boys being run down by malicious witches in candy houses.

In this post, she opens up about her own story with her mother — both her successes and failures — to show us a better way to love.

My tinies might tell a very different story about me as a mother than what I've put online.

His strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

We can all tell stories about such relationships, in which the mother — or some other close relative — used blood ties as slave bracelets.

Once, when I was fussing about a girl whom I knew I did not love and did not want to marry, but who had charm and who had somehow offended my pride, Mother heard my story and simply said, «Charles, life is big.»

If a mother can be arrested for leaving her child in a car, never out of her sight, for three minutes on a freezing day while her other children put money in a Salvation Army bucket — well, if someone were to write a story, now, about children allowed to sail and camp alone for an entire summer, and stay out all night on the water, those children would have to possess supernatural powers or inhabit another planet, and the story would be labeled «fantasy.»

Here is a story about a young man in my area who came from a upper middle class home, mother and father married, never divorced.

He «found a woman with whom he felt able to be completely open about himself» — and this not long after the Narnia stories, in which Lewis finally made his peace with the loss of his mother and his alienation from his father.

I wanted to tell of the ways that my family and community have formed my theology, I wanted to write a love letter to my complex feelings about church and community, marriage and mothering, womanhood and sisterhood — and I wanted to tell our story.