My friend Marcie turned me on to this artist, Slinkachu.  The tagline for his work is “Little handpainted people left in London to fend for themselves.” If you check out his blog or website you can see the little people in  photographs close up or from afar....

In honor of my own generous, funny, all-loving, energetic, intelligent, delightful Mother, I am sending you a poem written and read by Billy Collins, called “The Lanyard.” I cry every time I hear this poem. It is just under three minutes long. I promise you, it is worth your time....

StoryCorps just released this four-minute animation of an interview between 12-year old Joshua Littman, who has Asperger’s syndrome, and his mom. The animation interview is a great kick-off to Mothers’ Day. But it is also a touching piece about how we relate to the people in...