Voices of Motherhood Writing Contest

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She placed her daughter into a stranger’s arms – the baby was wrapped in pink and carried in her tiny, premature heart, all her mother’s hope.

by: Liz McLennan

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The Weight of Letting Go

They call it “the sandwich generation” as if something as innocuous as a sandwich could even begin to describe the stress of being pulled in every direction.

by: Jessica Gollub

2017 Voices of Motherhood Writing Contest

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Voices of Motherhood 2017 Writing Contest

Our 5th Annual Voices of Motherhood writing contest is open and this year we are Celebrating Canadian Motherhood!

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Warrior Mother

I carry stones in my pockets so that if an experience or a place strikes me as something she should have seen or felt I lay a pebble.

by: Rosemary O'Neill

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A Constant Love

I remember my mother – busy in her mothering, constant in her love – and feel reassured that I’m getting it more right than wrong.

by: Christina Myers

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You Should Envy Me

When my daughter climbs in my lap and covers me in kisses, that’s when I realize that I am the one to be envied

by: Tara Wilson

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Motherhood: A Story Untold

The last time I saw my Mom was about twenty five years ago...

by: Vinma Joseph

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Finding Myself on the Kitchen Floor

Nearly eight years ago, I became a mom. And every notion I had of mothering a newborn went out the window.

by: Taslim Jaffer