What I Wish I Would Have Known A Daughter’s Experience of Her Mother’s Passing “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” ~George Eliot People don’t talk enough about death and dying. It’s odd that it’s such a taboo subject considering it happens to all of us at some point, but I can… Read More What I Wish I Would Have Known (written by my niece)
Leaving my mom has never been easy despite having made the trip several times since moving to LA in 2011. Now, just seven months after her recovery from a heart attack, I can admit that it’s absolutely (excruciatingly) harder. Traditionally (despite being the person most apt to wear my emotions on my sleeve in the… Read More It’s Gotten Harder
My mom has a long history of being funny, artsy, quirky – and infuriating. At least, when I was little, I thought she was the most infuriating person on the face of the planet. We were often at odds, and I was convinced that her every move was meant to traumatize me in some small… Read More Thinking About My Success
I grew up as an only child from the age of 0-13. Oddly enough, I would figure out one of my family’s biggest secrets through what was the fairly benign routine of looking through old family photo albums. This is my memory of that day (in Kinderhook, NY, where my gramp’s house was fairly famous… Read More Sisters
My mom and I were sort of famous for NOT getting along when I was younger. We fought like sisters (it wasn’t pretty). I remember fights over the radio on road trips, all out fits in the store for back-to-school shopping, a paralyzing fear of having to go to any doctor and the ensuing verbal… Read More Group Home
My mom is famous for a) her quirkiness and b) not remembering important details of my life. Last year (in honor of my 38th birthday), she decided to share the following: • I was born at 7:20 pm; • I was 3 weeks early (and SHOULD have been a Halloween baby – Halloween is in… Read More My Mom and the Missing Details
