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When You Don’t Have a Hallmark Mother

As a young adult, I spent more time than most pondering the selection of Mother’s Day greetings at my local stationery store. I pored over the message inside each card to find something, how shall I say, accurate? I balked at the prose inside one that said, “Mom, you’ve always…
Jane Pollak
May 10, 2019
Nonfiction

Jane Pollak: Time to Say “Enough” with This Marriage

Appreciation. Praise. Approval. Validation. That’s what Jane Pollak sought from her 30-plus years of marriage. Trouble was she was married to the wrong person to provide it. In Pollak’s masterfully written memoir, Too Much of Not Enough (She Writes Press), the intrigue begins in the first paragraph in a therapist’s…
Jim Alkon
June 3, 2019