So this is Letters to my Mother, but I had to take a different tack when I realized that it was almost Father’s Day and I am thinking about the two of them. They were together for over 50 years if you count the time they were dating before they married. That’s a long time […]
Wow I feel like I lost months from my life – which I suspect I did. I think that the loss of my mother kind of merged with the gray of winter and I let myself have a very long pity party. I became self-absorbed and negative and forgot about joy. And that is such […]
Thanksgiving sent me into an emotional tailspin – Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays, and one of my mother’s favorite holidays. We were always together for Thanksgiving at her home or mine, until 2012 when she was too ill to come to my home, so I had to go see her in […]
Somehow it never matters how much time or notice you have, you never get to say all you want to say, there always feels like there is something you wish you got to say or do. Even though my mother was sick for quite a while before she died, I still feel like I wish […]
Dear Mom, So much has been written about parenting a teenager, so I know that my words are unlikely to be all that new or fresh, but I am so struck by it that I have to comment. And just because it’s trite doesn’t make it any less powerful at a personal level. When my […]
So I think that my loss of my friend has to do with the difference a point of view makes. My friend and I have many similarities: we both have a lot on our plates, both have had a number of losses, both of us value our children and our families. We both tend to […]
Dear Mom, I just lost a friend. It happened so fast I am sitting here shocked. I didn’t think I was being unreasonable, but they thought I was being selfish, and basically told me so and told me good riddance. And we had been friends for a long time. Maybe I was being selfish. I […]
I met Jim many years ago, and was amazed by him at that time. Here was someone who had his life as he knew it taken away from him, and his response was to become the best person he could be. I think of him as a role model that we could all strive to […]
I think it’s funny that my mother always enjoyed listening to me sing in the car – my kids are always telling me to stop (I think because it embarrasses them) – but she was always happy to listen to me sing either with the radio or whatever occurred to me. Maybe it’s that kind […]
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