(as shared at Story Salon in October 2015)
- Nov 17, 2015
Tears of Hope and Oil
My mother was a young teen living in Brooklyn, New York on December 16, 1960 when a United Airlines jet crashed into a TWA plane over Par...
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Suzanne Weerts (as shared at Story Salon
- Nov 4, 2015
White Gloves and Party Manners
I grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood under the watchful eye of a very frugal mother. She reused and recycled before it was chic...
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Suzanne Weerts (as shared at Expressing Motherhood
- Oct 6, 2015
Naked
I’ve never been entirely comfortable with nudity. I think that stems from my upbringing with an utterly modest Irish Catholic mother whom...
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Suzanne Weerts (as Shared at Story Salon on
- Sep 24, 2015
On Saying Goodbye
Mothers have been saying goodbye to their children since the beginning of human time. And I don’t know how they have done it. Prehisto...
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Suzanne Weerts (as shared at Story Salon on
- Sep 10, 2015
Free Fallin'
It was one of those perfect fall days, with a crisp blue sky and a slight breeze in the air. I had a couple hours before I needed to lea...
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Suzanne Weerts (as shared at Story Salon August 19
- Aug 27, 2015
A Letter to My Mother
Dear Mom, As it has been nearly sixteen years since you died, we have a lot to catch up on: marriages, births, holidays, the happy times...
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Suzanne Weerts (as shared at Story Salon May 2014)
- Aug 20, 2015
Dust in the Wind
The adults sat in a stiff semi-circle in the living room, balancing their cups and saucers on their knees and nibbling on mini-banana nut...
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Suzanne Weerts (as shared at Story Salon in April
- Jul 2, 2015
Freedom to Ride
I was sitting outside the Glendale DMV last month while my 16 year-old daughter took her driving test. Another right of passage about ...
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