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Motherless daughters
After my mom died, a friend gave me a book called Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman. It was several years — literally — before I was ready to read it. Not because I didn’t have time and not because...
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I want my mommy!
October 13. The day my mom died. It’s here again, and 7 years later, it still sucks. They say time heals all wounds, but I say “heals” is a bit of a stretch. It’s more like time puts a too-small and...
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Trapping the jumping beans
“Sometimes I have to let go and mother myself, kiss the hurts away. Tell myself that sometimes bad things just happen. But writing about it helps a lot, it scrapes it out of the dark corner, holds it...
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10 years later
Ten years ago today, I got the call. The call I’d been dreading. The call from my dad to tell me that my mom was dead. I was in my car, in line to drop my #1 son at school. He was still in the car, but...
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