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…