From the category archives:

Stories of the Mom

Last Mother’s Day

May 10, 2009

My mother spent her last Mother’s Day in a coma.
On Friday, May 12, 2006, my mother suffered a ruptured cerebral aneurysm. She had just returned from the garden center with a trunkful of small red flowers (Mom loved flowers) and had asked my father if he wanted the last slice of cold pizza (Mom loved [...]

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Sometimes you can’t jump; sometimes you need to be pushed

March 18, 2009

You know, I had a whole post ready to go up on Thursday morning. This was going to be the first time that I would get a second post up in a week as scheduled. I had been compelled by an email from a friend and a fortuitous web of link-following to write that post. [...]

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