Julia Ward Howe takes credit for coming up with Mother’s Day as we know it today. Her 1870 proclamation put the day on the American calendar. Howe’s proclamation was a reaction to death during the Civil War.

Reflecting on those irreplacable memories of mom for Mother’s Day

In ancient times, the Greeks praised mothers during the festival of Rhea. Rhea was the mother of their gods. 

A pair of quotes adorn the walls inside Alameda’s beautiful, bright and airy Christian Science church, at Walnut Street and Central Avenue: “God Is Love” and “Divine love always has met and always will meet every human need” from Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy.