My Mother, My Friend
The Ten Most Important Things to Talk About With Your Mother
Introduction: Getting to Know You -- How to BeginIt's been seven years since my mother passed away and I still have questions I want to ask her. Sitting at my desk, I glance at a photograph next to my computer. It's a wrinkled black and white snapshot of my mother and me, lying on our backs, sleeping peacefully in her twin bed. The year is 1953, and I am six months old. I am dressed in baby bunting, and look like a Kewpie doll with my brown hair twirled into a single curl on the top of my head. Mom is thirty-three. Her face is shiny, and her arms are folded up over her head. She's wearing a sleeveless nightie and a thin gold bracelet around her left wrist. Her painted nails shimmer, and she looks as beatific as the Madonnas she used to collect.
What memories that photo evokes.
I am fourteen years old and excited because I have just found this picture of myself and Mom that I had never seen before. I show it to her, and she reminisces about how jubilant she felt after I was born, because she'd been told she would never be able to have chil ... read full excerpt from My Mother, My Friend: The Ten Most Important Things to Talk about with Your Mother ebook
