This Just In: Mother’s Day

This Just In: Mother’s Day

This Just In — what to do on Mother’s Day used to be a very easy and straightforward thing for me. First, of course I would call my mother and chat with her on the phone for as long as we wanted. Like so many I can’t do that anymore, though my first thought in contemplating the day is to remember my mother. I don’t need a special day to do that because memories of my mother are all around me. It used to be that the primary activity that I would …

My 6 Mother’s Day rules (no whining allowed)

I have a secret. I would give anything for a plaster of Paris handprint with my son or daughter’s name carved painstakingly below the palm and a ribbon hanger tied into the top for Mother’s Day. It would mean that my kids aren’t really growing at warp speed, as they seem to be – at 12 and 15. I truly do not know where the time has flown. Nowadays they are more likely to stick their hands in freshly poured sidewalk cement and run before the cemen…