Today is moving day.

My Mom Pinkie Patti leaves her home of 40 years to go into another kind of "home."

The kind you go to when you don't know where youi're going or what you're doing anymore. And she doesn't.

Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist satarist and media critic. She is also an insightful and thought-provoking blogger whom I greatly respect and admire. I highly recommend following her on Twitter.

This excellent piece was originally published in far greater length and considerably more detail on The Huffington Post.

If a child lives with criticism, she learns to condemn.

If a child lives with hostility, she learns to fight.

If a child lives with ridicule, she learns to be shy.