I receive email occasionally. Most emails come from mothers who have been estranged by their adult kids. Much less often, maybe twice a year, I get an email from someone who has estranged their mother or both parents. (I rarely get emails from men who are fathers or sons. I may have received two emails…
Father’s Day & Estrangement II
On FayObserver.com (The Fayetteville Observer), May 17, 2007: Celebrate Parents’ Day by Steven R. Edelman Written by a father for his son, Shane, from whom he had been estranged for a time. Posted on June 18, 1995: Father’s Day In the archive of This American Life, Chicago Public Radio: 26: Father’s Day ’96. Available for…
Mummies in the news! – tragicomic news item
My original title for this snippet, "Mummies in the news!", made me squeamish but I went ahead and used it anyway. For those who are connected in real life to this sort of story, it must be anything but funny. It’s the sort of story that is funny if it is fiction and on Monty…
Father’s Day & Estrangement
On AskMetafilter: How to be kind but firm with an estranged parent who wants more than I am willing to give, March 15, 2007 On top40: The Story Behind "Confessions of a Broken Heart (Daughter to Father)" Go On, Make Peace with Dad by Will Kern. Originally published on June 17, 2001. On FindArticles.com: Healing…
And one more on Mother’s Day
There’s a year till the next one but before I started looking for Father’s Day posts, I looked one more time for posts on Mother’s Day and found this thread:On SoberRecovery.com, a post and responses: Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day Post Secrets: May 13 to 20
Postsecret(Mother’s Day Postsecrets will be up till the next week of secrets are posted on Sunday, May 20.)
Even more on Mother’s Day
Only Human: A real son’s tribute to real moms, by Michael Riley, May 11, 2007 on Asbury Park Press
More on Mother’s Day & Estrangement
Finding Mom’s Right Gift by Elizabeth Lardie, May 8, 2007, The Times Record online Mars Needs Moms on Jim Hill Media. Only remotely connected to estrangement but funny nugget of mother-related stuff. CamelsbackandForth: Early Late Stories, May 10, 2007 InsideToronto.com – On The Guardian: Mother’s Day Coping Tips for the Bereaved, May 10, 2007 On…
Mother’s Day & Estrangement
On ChristianityToday: When Mother’s Day Is Hard – Taking solace in Scripture’s difficult and unsentimental image of motherhood. By Jenell Williams Paris, May 1, 2004 How do you handle Mother’s day if you’re estranged? On Yahoo Answers, April 2007 Time’s Fool: Mother’s Day: Not Everyone Celebrates, May 4, 2007 On Salon.com: The other woman…
Pass the ketchup but no thanks on the testosterone!
I love Scott Adams. There I said it. I love the guy. Today he posted a link to a study about the reactions of some people to angry faces.High-testosterone people reinforced by other’s anger new study finds, March 14, 2007 – on the University of Michigan website.Which reminds me instantly of one of my mother’s…