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Mother’s Day, relationships, and missing moms
My Mother’s Days have been spent making sure my own mother was happy. Usually that made me happy, too, but really it was all about her. This time, I’m the only mom in the immediate picture, and I’m not ready … Continue reading
Easter: writing about death, rebirth, and other spiritual experiences
Last weekend my sister came to visit and we had a private memorial for our mother at our local botanical garden, under the cherry trees – still tightly budded - in the Japanese garden our mother loved. I decided it was … Continue reading
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Eighteen Months to Live by Rachele Baker – the gift of a journal
Journal entries are not memoir. At least, not usually. Rachele Baker, however, took her mother’s end-of-life journal and turned it word-for-word into a book, with just a few notes of explanation here and there and some letters her mother wrote … Continue reading
