DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My eleven-year-old son started paying attention to world news when he was in fourth grade and his teacher assigned him a social studies project to follow a news story for two ... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: I am beyond positive she didn’t learn it from me, but I see my 19-year-old daughter go all damsel in distress when there’s something she doesn’t want to deal with herself.... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: I know it’s seems hypocritical because I myself married a younger man, but my husband is only six years younger than me, and the woman our son is currently dating is more than... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My grandfather has been in a nursing home since he began to need much more care than my parents and my uncle were able to give him.... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: When we bought our home most of the houses on our street were either ranchers like the one we’re in, or bungalows all from the 1950s and 1960s. It was a perfect neighborhood w... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: Every Mother’s Day for the past eighteen years, my sisters and I went to our mother’s house and got her garden going. She had THE best herbs and vegetables, which she grew sin... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: When we moved into our new apartment, the first people to knock on our door and introduce themselves was the elderly couple next door. They told us they lived in this building... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My son is a nurse practitioner at one of our city’s bigger hospitals. It was at work where he met his fiancée, Layla. She is one of the maintenance department’s supervisors.... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: I couldn’t make it to one of my oldest friend’s wedding in California, but I still wanted to get her and her new husband something. I have a set of pots and pans that are abso... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: It took us a long, long time for my husband and me to finally decide on a house to buy. We looked for nearly a year-and-a-half. Nothing was quite right for my husband. I am mo... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: When my daughter was ten, she was hit in the face by a soccer ball. The injury caused a deviated septum, and ever since she has had headaches, sinus infections, and nosebleeds... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: I am one of the “older” staffers at the USPS processing center where I have worked for the past 22 years. The majority of my coworkers are 10-20 years younger than me.... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: Not long after my girlfriend, Claire, moved in, I was reassigned to one of my company’s offices that is an hour (without traffic) away from our home. This means I am up and ou... more
DEAR SOMEONE ELSE’S MOM: My 84-year-old grandfather was raised in a family of immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to the U.S. right before WWII and immediately moved to an Eastern European neighbo... more