Re: Mother's Day ... Anna Marie Jarvis had the right idea
That's my Mom and me, when I was about four years old. We used to check out books at the Edina (Minnesota) public library on a regular basis in those days. I don't think I'm the only person in the world who has a little trouble with Mother's Day. I should say I had a great Mother's Day this year. We got out on a pontoon boat, I cleaned up the beach area we oversee, and had a nice float, and then we visited with neighbors we hadn't seen in months. My kind of day. It hasn't always been so fun. Years ago, when I was in my late 20's, I wrote a newspaper column with a title like this one "Why I Hate Mother's Day." That was one column I'd like to take back because among other reasons, my future mother-in-law, a saint of a woman, questioned my sanity at the time. Well. Sanity aside, it's problematic to those of us who had somewhat dicey childhoods. I had a wonderful mother, by the way, but she became ill when I w