Obsessed with wanting her child to be “gritty,” world-champion hurdler Perdita Felicien was transformed by motherhood when she came to see her daughter, Nova, as a separate individual.
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Angie Abdou noticed – with surprise and some shame – that her young daughter was paralyzed by fear and shyness, and leapt to a solution that took the two of them on a (literal) uphill journey.
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At 15 Harriet Alida Lye was diagnosed with natural-killer-cell leukemia. Now a parent herself, she looks back on the heartache she realizes her parents experienced.
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Desmond Cole's story about the devastating bullying he endured by his elementary-school principal serves as a milestone moment in his own understanding of insidious, unwanted attention and powerlessness. He also re-visits a story he shared with Wordfesters on his last visit to Calgary in February...
