TOMORROW: A Resource List of Books for Mother's Day

And heartspace for those who have difficult relationships with their mothers

Dear Writers,

I write you five days out from back surgery, which was completed on Monday. I’m recovering both faster and slower than I expected. I had little time to prepare, as the surgery was a semi-emergency. The good news? I’ve been able to walk more in the past few days than I was able to walk in the past month, since my left leg essentially stopped working. It works again! The bad news? I can’t bend or twist, and I am still in pain. But those two things are temporary. Yay!

I’ve gained a lot of new subscribers in the past week or so and I welcome you to this space— a space for anyone who is or wants to be a writer; for anyone who writes at all.

As some of you may know, Mother’s Day is a hard day for me. Tomorrow will be the twelve year anniversary of my mother’s suicide. I arrived at her house on Mother’s Day 2010, when I was twenty-nine years-old. It’s a long story. Here’s a little piece I wrote about that day.

In thinking about Mother’s Day this year I wanted to compile a resource for those of us who have mothers, and especially for those of us who have difficult relationships with our mothers. I know that, for me, memoirs about mothers kept me alive, especially when they were honest.

Tomorrow I’ll be sending out a resource; a long long list with hyperlinks and reviews compiled from a long long Twitter thread wherein many incredible people recommend many incredible books. This list will be for paying subscribers only, because it’s taken a long time and a lot of effort for me to compile. Anyone can access the Twitter thread, so I’m not gatekeeping the resources themselves, rather the effort it takes to make them more accessible to all of you.

I’ll be sending that out tomorrow, so if you’d like to become a paying subscriber now is the time. I’m also offering 15% off memberships, whether you choose yearly or monthly.

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I’ll see you tomorrow!