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Saturday Sidebar: What is your favorite autumn (or spring) memory as a kid?
This week's Saturday Sidebar Question comes from Eva Fannon, the World Moms Blog Saturday Sidebar Editor. She’s been enjoying some lovely autumn weather in the Pacific Northwestern U.S. and asked our writers, “What hemisphere do you live in and what is your favorite...
SOCIAL GOOD: A Global Vaccination Epiphany
But somewhere on the planet, a mother mourns the loss of her son from rotavirus. Another mother holds on warmly and desperately to her child who will die of pneumonia tomorrow. Mothers are losing their children, while I’m drying my own daughter’s eyes from her “pinch” and moving on with my day.
SAUDI ARABIA: The Choices We Make (for Them)
“My son and I were counting how many schools he has been to since he started formal schooling. He went to preschool in Riyadh, then a British school in London then an American school in London then an International school in Riyadh then to the school here. So obviously, when we move back, I would essentially like to put him in one school and keep him there.”
ISRAEL: Sorry Means Nothing
“In Judaism, this time of the year is a time of reflection. A week and a half ago was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Fast Day of Atonement & Repentance. The High Holidays are a time to reflect on your actions of the past year and ask for forgiveness not only from God but also from people you have wronged.”
Washington, USA: My First Biopsy
“When a doctor who has been telling you it’s nothing for years switches to probably nothing, it gives you pause. It allows doubt to enter. It allows fear to enter.”
NEW YORK, USA: To Wean or Not to Wean? That is the Question!
“I just keep telling myself, breast is best, it’s only temporary, I can deal with a little pain for the sake of my child and other such clichés…. But really, all I want to do is cry alongside her.”
Travel Itinerary for the Week of October 16th!
“On Wednesday, get out your passports, as we travel over to the Middle East to visit Susie Newday of Israel! Susie’s messages of hope, inclusiveness and positivity, all while working as a nurse in a cancer ward are amazing. We look forward to seeing what she has in store for us this week!”
Saturday Sidebar: In five years, I want to…
This week's Saturday Sidebar Question comes from World Moms Blog writer Maggie Ellison. She wanted our writers to look ahead and asked them to finish this sentence, “In five years, I want to …..” Read on to see how some of our World Moms responded. Dr. Lanham of...
NORWAY: Grandparents
“I am still shy and have always been, but I am better at handling it now. I am very aware that I would like my son to grow up differently. I know I can’t turn him into the perfect person, but I can at least help him on the way.”
GUEST POST: Scary Mommy Society
“She answered, ‘Scary Mommy.’ I gulped…I’m guest posting at the “Scary Mommy Society” today. Comments will be closed here, so please go there and check it out and send me some World Moms Blog love!”
WASHINGTON, USA: Life is good
“It was a warm August summer evening in Seattle in the summer of 2009. After swimming lessons, my oldest daughter and I walked out of the recreation center towards our car in the parking lot. As we walked, we passed a forested area that had vines with big blackberries on them. My daughter (then 3 years old) asked, “What are those momma?”. “Blackberries” I responded. “Can we eat some?” she asked. I paused to think about it…”Sure, why not?””
CALIFORNIA, USA: Interview with Angela Y.
Why do you blog/write?
Perspective. I like to give it and I like to get it. I often think that if I write a post about, say, the way things are here in San Francisco, CA – I look forward to learning how things are around the world. What I am learning is that, at the deepest level, we are all the same 🙂
VIRGINIA, USA: A Village of Two
“Our children’s “village” was a virtual experience for them, some kind of amorphous idea of the people in our lives that we tried to implant into their hearts so they would love them even though these people rarely (if at all) existed in their day-to-day lives.”
BRAZIL: Returning to São João do Tigre
“The time of the trip finally came, and I was able to check what was true from my memories and what had changed in all of these years. The town of São Sebastião do Umbuzeiro is, of course, much larger now. I remembered it as a string of houses around a great, circular plaza, but we found no such place.”
Travel Itinerary for the Week of October 10th!
On Monday we are in Brazil with Eco Ziva, who recounts an exciting adventure. She got to repeat a childhood Brazilian journey with her own son thirty years later. On Tuesday, we fly north to the United States, where Dee Harlow has taken up temporary residence in...
Saturday Sidebar: What cause would you support?
Welcome to the Saturday Sidebar (formerly known as the Friday Question)! This weekend our discussion question comes from World Moms Blog founder Jennifer Burden. She asked our writers, “If you had to pick one cause or charity for social good, which would you choose?...
CALIFORNIA, USA: Walls Closing In
The walls were closing in.
They were squeezing the life out of me like a vice. Making me sweat. Making me second guess myself.
Making me crazy.
And as my family relished my tiny miracle, I was crumbling inside. Panicking. Becoming more and more restless.
NEW JERSEY, USA: Interview with Jennifer Burden, Founder WMB
“Well, that was the problem. I couldn’t find World Moms Blog, so I wound up creating it. I wanted to go to one place to read about how mothers around the world were doing things. What I didn’t realize is how important the community around the blog would mean to so many others and how the mothers I write alongside, The World Moms, would make such a difference in my life.”
MALAYSIA: Lessons From My Childhood
When I think back on my childhood memories, I see moments -- like it's on a patchwork quilt. I am two. My second brother pushes me, and I fall and land on our pet dog, Rufus. Sweet, gentle Rufus turns his head as I land, then growls and snaps at my ear. I remember...
EAST TIMOR: Helpful Family Flight Tips!
I recently posted about my adventures in traveling with twins around the world. Here are a few additional lessons I’ve learned along the way! Plan ahead: If you are traveling with an infant, bulkhead seats are the way to go. Most airlines will let you pre-book a baby...
VIRGINIA, USA: Interview with Dee Harlow
Where in the world do you live? And, are you from there?
I was born in Thailand and have lived in so many places that there is not one place that I can genuinely say I am “from.”
At this moment, I live in northern Virginia but it is really only a pit stop until next July when my husband and I, and our two kids, will go live in Vientiane, Laos for two years. And this is after having just lived in Mexico for two years…thus is life in the US Foreign Service.
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