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2023 stories

Kelly Metras

tbd

Sometimes our moms show us how to parent without saying a word.

tbd

Doug Curry is a native New Yorker, born in Harlem, and raised in the Bronx. He Is a 1974 graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a poet and writer, radio host, and, since 2016, an actor. Since 1982 Doug has been the voice and radio host of 'Blacks & Blues,' heard online, and on terrestrial radio in Western and Centeral New York, and in international blues capitol, Chicago, Illinois. Doug served a five year stint as the on-air host of the public affairs broadcast Challenge, at WROC TV, Rochester NY, from 1984 to 1989. Since 2016, Doug has voiced film and audio books, and has appeared in a variety of dramatic roles onstage and remotely for such theater entities as Blackfriars Theater and its Hourglass Reading Serivce, the Bronze Collective, the Off-Monre Players, the Penfield Players, and Rochester Institute of Technology's NTID, as well as a for variety of creative directors and producers. Doug is currently a board member for Rochester group, Just Poets, as well as its Vice President.
Outside of the creative world, Doug Curry has been an automotive sales professional since 1987.

Doug Curry

Ma's Homerun

In the game of life, Mom kept her head up and worked hard to make sure her family could flourish.

Tracy Nemecek

The Circle Of Life

Tracy contemplates becoming a new mother during her own mother's last days.

The Circle Of Life

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Melissa Gibson

Mileage

During a car ride with her kids, Melissa absorbs both the minutae and enormity of navigating life together.

"Mama" Almeta Whitis

An Elegy Remembering Pee Wee

Born on the eve of the Great Depression, "Pee Wee" bestowed invaluable life lessons to her daughters, some of which are recounted here, in excerpts from Almeta's original elegy for her mother.

An Elegy Remembering Pee Wee

Bonnie Jaeckel

Humor Overrules

A newly-converted Catholic mother tries (and fails) to assert strict rules.

Humor Overrules

Heather Hanson

You're Going To Miss This, They Say

In this story, Heather considers whether the adage is true.

You're Going To Miss This, They Say

Kara Veeder

My Mother Is My Church

When Kara begins driving long-distance to visit an incarcerated man, her mother knows: it's love.

My Mother Is My Church

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