Mothers

Shakira Hussein (seated in chair) with daughter Adalya Nash Hussein. Photo by Leah Jing McIntosh. Author providedMy daughter started to describe me as disabled long before I...

Dorothea Lange’s famous Migrant Mother portrait, showing a mother of seven children in California, 1936.  US Library of Congress/Flickr There are images of her everywhere, especially...

KieferPix/Shutterstock The coronavirus pandemic is keeping us at home due to widespread unemployment, school closures and social distancing. This has already led to concerns about...

Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

I don’t look in the mirror anymore because it always startles me when I don’t recall the face.This year I had the most solitary...

The trumpets that break the dawn A fanfare to the dying and unborn Passion replaced by duty Love replaced by fear And the ticking of the clock Says “Young...

She died in my arms Not a word was said In silence we rose And got out of our bed Her eyes would flash I knew them too well Every...

From the mansions of sadness To the bums on the street From the highways of loneliness To the halls of defeat I’ve watched your ascendance The road I never...