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PARENTING: Things I Wish My Boss Knew About Maternity Leave
INDIA: Kaleidoscope
How fast can the years rush by? Shifting images: Imagine putting your eyes to a kaleidoscope and marveling at the beauty of the image. Now, just a tiny flick of the wrist and the image shifts and coalesces into something completely new. Beautiful, but new. That is the...
PUERTO RICO: Preparing For Maria
Puerto Rico is a US Territory an the Caribbean. There are 3.4 million American citizens living there and yet two months later many homes are still without electricity, and still some without running water. Maria came thirteen days after Hurricane Irma, another...
A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday
Giving Tuesday was created to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It has become an international movement around the holidays dedicated to giving, in the same way that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now synonymous with...
World Tour of Andre Rieu and The Johann Strauss Orchestra
Nothing #thesistershood likes more than dressing up for a night on the town. When there is music and women in splendid ballgowns who sing like angels while being accompanied by a genius with a violin - perfection. Sisters from Another Mister was thrilled to be...
WORLD VOICE: Halloween Traditions New and Old
Halloween dates back to the 8th century when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts during the Celtic festival of Samhain. Celebrated on October 31st, the festival recognized the end of the summer and harvest and the beginning of dark, cold...
Baby Doe: Why Can’t We Stop Child Homelessness?
Last October, I attended an Interfaith Memorial Service for the homeless at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in East Los Angeles. The service remembered the 472 homeless people who died on the streets in Los Angeles County in 2016. Seven of the deceased were under three...
INDONESIA: What I Learn From Meditating for 3 Months Straight
I had heard about meditation before. I've tried it several times before. I didn't just wake up one day and say to myself "C'mon Maureen...let's try to meditate for 3 straight months!" No, no, no! Actually, it wasn't until I felt completely out of whack that I decided...
World Voice: Social Good Summit + UNGA: Education is Key for #2030NOW
For the past three years, I have attended the Social Good Summit in September and have always been excited to hear speakers address issues that deal with SDG’(Sustainable Development Goals). This year’s speakers did not disappoint. In addition, I was invited to be a...
USA: Today Is World Polio Day 2017
Last year I spoke at the United Nations Foundation Shot@Life Summit to a room of almost 200 advocates for global vaccines from all over the country. I had a story to tell, as many of us do, though you might not know it. The story of how Polio touched the lives of so...
CANADA: In Search Of Hope In The Wake Of Mass Shootings
When I first came to Canada just over seventeen years ago, I was struck by the fact that every murder in Toronto made front page news. Every single one. When I heard that 2000, the year of my arrival, had seen 81 homicides in the Greater Toronto Area, I was slightly...
World Voice: From PranaPrathishta to Pranahuti – The Transformative Possibilities
There was an air of pious anticipation, that one could almost hear the elephants trumpeting while carrying huge granite stones to build the temple, one could almost hear the hum of the 400 odd dancing damsels’ and their anklets tinkling, while dancing for Lord Shiva...
GHANA: Motherhood and Experiences
I love being a mother and I’m forever grateful for my children. It has not always been so smooth through pregnancy, childbirth, and nurturing but I’m constantly learning, praying and evolving as I navigate through this journey of motherhood. We have been blessed with...
USA: The Power of Hello
My oldest child just started middle school, which in the United States generally means sixth through eighth grade, or the years between elementary school and high school. Middle school has a tough reputation. It’s a time of huge change in every way possible. Kids go...
WORLD VOICE: Volunteer Abroad with Unearth the World #studyabroadbecause
In 2013, Kathryn Pisco and her husband Mike left their corporate jobs and decided to take a trip of a lifetime in an attempt to unearth and discover the world. Over the next 250 days, the pair traveled to over 20 countries and volunteered at 5 different volunteer...
SRI LANKA: What do You do When you Chose the Wrong School?
What are you supposed to do when you can tell that the school your kids are in isn’t exactly what you’d like a school to be like? Not everyone has the luxury of just moving kids from school to school just because they don’t like it. I am thankful that our constant...
World Moms Network: We’re Back!!
Welcome back, everyone! This summer we all took a well needed "Blogcation" from the site. It was nice to take a break. The summer was busy for me and my family. We were in Europe and splashing along New Jersey's coast in the USA, as well as, day tripping...
What We Did During WORLD MOMS Blogcation 2017
You might have noticed we were a bit quiet on our website this summer as we took our annual "Blogcation." Well, here is what some of us, World Moms, were up to during July and August of 2017! Tara Bergman, USA "My family and I took a backpacking trip to an alpine...
USA: Parents As Seen Through The Eyes Of Children
My husband is a software engineer who specializes in smart phone application development. Our four-year-old son described his father’s job as “very challenging.” He said, “Dad is always fixing phones, lots of phones. His lab is loaded with phones.” I am an independent...
WORLD VOICE: Dreams – It’s Never Too Late
Euphoria! Trepidation! Doubt! And a crazy buzz in the pit of my tummy which I had rarely felt since becoming a mother! These were just some of a multitude of swirling emotions which engulfed me on my recent trip to East Africa. Travelling solo to a part of the world...
SWITZERLAND: A Walk to Remember – Baumli
A Promising Terrace Above The Town That is what the receptionist said when I asked her the meaning of “aussichtsterrasse baumli”. "So, how do we go there?" I asked again. She looked at me blankly at first, and I worried if I had asked a culturally inappropriate...
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