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Mother's Day Feelings
I hate Mother’s Day. It catches me off guard every year. The first year after I lost my mother I walked into Walmart and there was a display with all those beautiful heart wrenching cards and I burst into tears and had to leave. I learned after a few years to stay away from the stores during Mother’s Day season. See I used to perch myself in the card aisle and see which one might make me cry the hardest, that’s the one that I always got my mom. Not because I was being mean, but she loved a good heart felt sentiment. And I totally get it, I’m the same damn way. Maybe that’s why I became a writer. Words have so much impact on us. I always hated that little ditty, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me…” bull fucking shit! Throw those stones baby, they heal. Words, on the other hand, once heard cannot be unheard. So, 16 years, 3 months and 12 days since my mother died, I am still mourning her. I still miss her pain in the ass self. I loved my mo