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Mother’s Day: Tips for Sandwiched Boomers Challenged by a Difficult Mother

Are you dreading Mother’s Day again this year and worrying about what to do for your mom? You may never have been close, or are now estranged and feeling angry. Have you cut the mother-daughter ties and ignore the day, yet remain resentful and sad? Or do you just pretend everything is OK and give her a gift anyway? Even though the media lead us to believe that all mothers deserve flowers and chocolates, if you don’t have a good relationship, this ‘special’ day can be agonizing. The truth is … Continue reading

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Syndicated Advice Columnist, ‘Ask Amy’ Launches Her New Website and Invites You to Join Her

Do you know Amy Dickinson, the national syndicated advice columnist and best selling author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter and the Town that Raised Them? She likely writes a column in your local paper. This is what WashingtonPost.com has to say about Amy: “She comes across very much as you’d expect an advice columnist to: smart, humorous, commonsensical, not prone to deep self-analysis and – despite having lived in London and Chicago and worked in New York as a television producer – a passionate proponent … Continue reading

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