Happy Mother’s Day

Readers and writers celebrate Mother’s Day in their own special ways. Bookfinder.com has published a list of the Worst Mothers in Literature, and Lori Gottlieb has an essay in the New York Times Book Review about writers writing about their mothers, and how their mothers react. The spirit of Mother’s Day is clearly alive and well.

I have to admit that I myself called home before 8:30 this morning, not due to a big rush to wish my mom a happy Mother’s Day but as the latest in an ongoing effort to beat my sister to the Sunday Phone Call Home (my dad tells us he keeps a chart near the phone). And then I learned that in celebration of the holiday, my mom is taking her own mother to see the film Is Anybody There?, in which Michael Caine plays a retired magician who “reluctantly enters a family-run old age home.” I told her I hoped Grandma wouldn’t think she was trying to drop any hints.

And, finally, in case you don’t have enough drama in your own Mother’s Day, check out today’s Post Secret for new Mother’s Day secrets.