We just celebrated Mother’s Day in the United States and I’ll admit that it isn’t my favorite holiday. I lost my mother to an incredibly heroic battle with pancreatic cancer about six years ago and so the barrage of emails, advertisements, and grocery store reminders about remembering moms is a little much to take. This year, though, I started thinking more about how I could honor the legacy of a wonderful woman all days of the year and not just on the second Sunday in May. And then, on a larger scale, I thought about how we as a country and a culture need to do a better job of respecting, supporting, and honoring the incredible work that moms do (we extend that to anyone who does the work of mothering).
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