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Life’s Signature
Growing up, I was never in a pinch for a Mother’s Day present. A gift-boxed bottle of Oil of Olay was just a bike sprint to Ed Downings Pharmacy in Walnut Lake. Back then, there was only that one product pledging to preserve one’s youthful complexion
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Thrive Again
Once when my children were eight, six and two, I didn’t have just a bad mothering day. I had a bad mothering week. I yelled at my kids, they misbehaved more, and my frustration level hit the roof. On Saturday, my husband told me, “I’ll take care of t
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Deliverance Alley
The place I call Deliverance Alley is a vacant lot of grass and dirt in a neglected south Dallas neighborhood. Drive by and you won’t see much. A sign on a deli across the street reads: “No trespassing, prostitution, drug dealing, loitering, weapons