Author: Yvette Hawley
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Looking Back, Moving Forward
In 2024, my dear mother-in-law passed away. She and my father-in-law had lived in their beloved home for almost 60 years. After the memorial and other decisions were finalized, my husband, sister-in-law, and I began to sift through, and linger over, five decades of nostalgia. My mother-in-law was meticulous; a retired surgical nurse, her organizational…
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Motherhood: Would You Do It Again?
It was in the restroom of a CVS where I discovered that I was pregnant, with my third son. Yes, a CVS restroom. Let me tell you a story… I gave blood and platelets regularly at a Red Cross donation center. When you have a common blood type, “O” positive, the vampires seek you out.…
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Setting Down the Cape
It was mostly during third grade when my two best friends and I would play Charlie’s Angels, the popular 1970s detective series, featuring three beautiful, brilliant women and a mysterious boss, Charlie. Despite being blonde, I always played dark-haired Sabrina, the quintessential tomboy. Deep down, I didn’t mind: she was smart and could run fast.…
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A Contract That Unites Us
The author, TM Scanlon refers to the philosophical idea of “contractualism,” or, as he puts it, “what we owe to each other.” Pared down and simplified this concept concerns the morality of interpersonal behavior. When I first heard this as a question “What do we owe to each other?” an offshoot of the ubiquitous “What…
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ADHD: Growing in Your Own Light
I love bookstores. If I could crawl up and fold myself between the spines of my favorite novels, you would forever find me resting there. For years, I strolled past the Self-Help aisle, reluctant to enter, anticipating a kind of Knott’s Scary Farm experience where ominous demons follow people around. One day, many years ago,…
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Something Greater Than Yourself
College taught me more life lessons than I would have ever thought possible, but it is soccer that crystallized them. AYSO, Region 14 in West Torrance is the first established organization of youth soccer in the United States. Thousands of children have come through registration, picked up their uniforms, and stepped out onto the school…