Tag: mother

  • The Ring

    Kelly Salasin Contributor, Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul When the one-year anniversary of my mother’s passing came around, I found myself in the kitchen preparing some of her favorite dishes. I hadn’t planned this, but there I was one hot August afternoon, making her famous soup from the turkey I had roasted…

  • The Precious Power of Tears

    “The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don’t have both, you don’t know yourself.” Rumi kelly salasin I feel drawn to write about the power of tears–though I am an unlikely candidate.  I can count the times I’ve cried in the past thirty years.   And yet perhaps…