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  • Hello all - I'm Elizabeth. I'm a woman, writer, wife, mother, reader, runner, eater, t...inal, nothing really intended for publication. Just practice on scene setting, mode, dialogue, character dev, etc...
  • Jennifer--I've been thinking about the question in the header of this discussion since yo...ore's comment about it in The New Yorker. The "Good Mother"...lly thinks about motherhood in a Leave it to Beaver mode anymore? To pretend that you...
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    10.09.2009 Repost: Ask Beth One of my first posts... My d...ng back and forth and I got into one of my mother modes. Mother mode is when I brainstorm with mys...ng back and forth and I got into one of my mother modes. Mother mode is when I brain...
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  • Deborah, I cried constantly from the first time I heard the news through Obama's speec...s. But when it's people I know personally and love deeply, I kick into 'brave' mode and remain solid as a rock, a...
  • Sian - as someone who grew up in a home full of addiction and all the dysfunction that...mpanies it, I get that instinctive urge to label your feelings as "whiny brat" mode, but I think your points are...
  • Great read very informative and I had no idea all this lady did for us tod...here was a time we had to fight to get out of the mother homemaker mode and now there are some ladies that want that mode and are made to feel that the...