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May 2012 |
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Nobody can make you feel inferior
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Something to think about....
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!
I was having a little trouble coming up with something to write about
for this section. I was temporarily blocked.
Then, because I missed the mail carrier, I had to take my mother-in-law,
Millie's, Mother's Day card to the post office. As I drove, I
thought about Millie. Then, of course, my mind went to my own mother,
whom I lost in 1979, and, as usual I was swept with a familiar sadness
that appears during these special days.
But at the same time, I realized what I needed to write about. DUH! It's
Mother's Day!
So, for all you who still have your mother—let her know you love her.
For all of you who don't still have your mother—honor her by taking some
time to remember her.
I'm sure there are a few of you who don't actually like your mom, or
there may be some hard feelings for whatever reason.
But the fact is, without our moms, none of us would be here. They gave
us life.
No language can express the power,
and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love. It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints, and over wastes of worldly fortunes sends the radiance of its quenchless fidelity
like a star.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
A mother is a person who seeing there
are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she
never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss
at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honoré de Balzac
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of
clergy.
Spanish Proverb If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests.
Author Unknown
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Washington Irving
Grown don't mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What's that suppose to mean? In my heart it don't mean a thing.
Toni Morrison
Beloved (1987) |
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 Something
To Think About: Reflections on Life, Family, Body Image &
Other Weighty Matters by the Queen of Rubenesque RomancesDownload it for free at http://www.pearlsong.com/newsroom/patballard/somethingtothinkabout.pdf.
Visit Pat's Place at
www.patballard.com | Write me at
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Click on the Bookbuzzr graphic (if visible on your computer screen) to browse an excerpt from Pat's newest book. Dangerous Love But after Ava saw some research she wasn't supposed to, someone wants her dead. And now she has to deal with the Southern talking, g-dropping, charming LAPD detective Ricky Don McKinzie. Her life is just beginning to get complicated. More info at the
Pearlsong Press
website.
(All copies of Dangerous Love
purchased from the Pearlsong Press website are autographed by Pat.) |
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Weighty Matters Below is a wonderfully well-done and insightful article by Linda Bacon from the Association for Size Diversity and Health's blog. The HAES Files:
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Reader Review of the
Month
5.0 out of 5 stars
Refreshing, March 5, 2012
This review is from Nobody's Perfect (Kindle Edition) "It was so refreshing to
read a novel with a plus sized heroine who was not (1) obsessed with
losing weight (2) constantly berating herself or (3) had terribly low self
esteem! I absolutely loved Nella! I loved that she knew how to "Work what
she has" -- that despite what others thought she knew she was fly! I also
like that Pat showed that other men were attracted to her as well. Once I
started reading I could not stop until I finished at 3am. You know what; I
don't have a single regret while sleepy at work Great job Pat!" |
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Listen to
a Feb. 11, 2009 Conversation with Pat Ballard |
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Calendar of Events Now available from Pearlsong Press in original trade paperback & ebook—Pat's newest book, Dangerous Love.
Pat & her publisher
Peggy Elam, Ph.D. have stopped co-hosting Radio Free Nashville's
Health At Every Size
show, but you can still
listen to or download recordings of the shows at
www.healthateverysize.info
or
www.pearlsong.com/audio.htm. |
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