Just like many others all across the country, I’ve been frustrated over the lack of flu vaccines in my area. My daughters and I usually get seasonal flu vaccines each year free from my husband’s employer. This year their seasonal flu shot clinic was postponed and then canceled for family members. They were finally able [...]
In 2001, Tracy Alva Lawder lost her mother. Two months later, 35-year-old Tracy felt tingling and numbness in her arms and legs on her entire left side. Family and friends assured her that she was probably experiencing depression or anxiety brought on by the loss of her mother.
It wasn’t until she went for an MRI [...]
I, and all the other writers here, typically write about children. We are “Mothers Fighting for Others,” and that usually means that, as mothers, we are fighting for children all over the world.
Today, however, I’d like to be a mother fighting for other mothers – for other women. On Friday, September 25, I spent the [...]
Stepwise, a not for profit organization working to provide basic needs for East Africa’s youth, is throwing a fund raiser at the Daniel Cooney Fine Art gallery in Manhattan to raise funds for Universal Children’s Centre in Mombasa, Kenya.
WHY??
Conditions at Universal are par for the course in East Africa: no running water, no steady [...]
This is Ann Magiri. Today, she is a freshman at Saint Peter the Rock High School. I remember having a long talk with her in January. She was lost in her history. Her Mother was very sick when she was about 11. Ann was her sole caregiver for months. She was exhausted from this task [...]