Tag: Loss of Parent
What I Want You to Know on Your Mom’s Birthday
How your mom showed me I had really messed something up was the same way she showed me I had done something remarkably well: she cried. This was also how she showed embarrassment, fear, anxiety, joy, or any of a cluster of emotions that… Continue Reading “What I Want You to Know on Your Mom’s Birthday”
What I Want You to Know About Mother’s Day
The first Mother’s Day or Father’s Day after a parent has died signals a change of remembering. No longer is it about remembering to put cards in the mail, to order flowers to be delivered, to wake up early and make the parent breakfast… Continue Reading “What I Want You to Know About Mother’s Day”
A Widowed Father 