rooftops
I called your mom and wept for the first time in a decade because I felt like she was mine.
2012-02-16 13:28:22 / Rating: 196.5 / 
Story archives - tag: "mother"
a beautiful disaster
When I logged on to Facebook, I wasn't expecting to find my mother's suicide note.
2012-01-30 09:38:26 / Rating: 263.25 /
Kara
It wasn't until I saw the first tear roll off his cheek that day in the hospital that I realized I wasn't just losing my Mother, but his little girl too.
2011-11-28 20:41:19 / Rating: 263 /
mclaire
The day our Uncle was crushed by a forty foot machine, my mother and brother could not stop discussing how cool it would be if he came back as a zombie while looking at his body and making arrangements for it at the funeral home.
2011-09-16 12:58:23 / Rating: 324.25 /
To My Mother
I was dumbstruck when she advised me the best way to cope with being raped, was to never talk about it again.
2011-07-11 08:54:26 / Rating: 395.75 /
Mims
While my classmate's very Christian parents were fighting to ban Huckleberry Finn in English class for its profanity, my mom bought me a fictional book for my birthday detailing the lives of Japanese hookers and proceeded to think nothing of it.
2011-06-30 16:15:53 / Rating: 569.75 /
"leah"
All my mom's kids have two middle names, but one of mine comes from a woman whose son set the fire that killed her in her sleep.
2011-06-06 08:04:05 / Rating: 447.5 /
Mw
My 18 year old sister's pregnancy that was unknown until she was 7 1/2 months along has improved my mom's and my relationship to the point that I actually feel a little comfortable telling her things now.
2011-05-10 15:20:51 / Rating: 446.25 /
infidel
His strict, Catholic, pure-minded mother caught us having sex on the pool table.
2011-02-10 15:09:19 / Rating: 483.25 /
Anathema
Like many of my mother's stories about me I do not remember this, but when I was a small child she claims she found me high in a large oak tree that had no low-hanging branches for me to climb up on.
2011-02-08 20:35:58 / Rating: 494.5 /
Elfy
It took me seven years to realize that when my mother sent me to him, she never wanted me helped, she wanted me drugged.
2011-02-03 09:09:51 / Rating: 476.5 /
N.W.B.
My mother says she doesn't know why is marijuana such a problem, because for her it's just a "relaxing herb."
2011-01-06 16:32:35 / Rating: 469 /
Nothing good about grief Charlie Brown
I was laying next to her when she took her last breath, and now I can't seem to catch mine.
2010-11-10 15:36:14 / Rating: 606.25 /
Angie
My mom joked, "Tell the interviewer, 'I love children, especially with noodles!'"
2010-09-16 14:26:04 / Rating: 396 /
Bree
After seventeen years of feeling like a disappointment to my mum, and writing a story about how she screwed my life, nothing feels as good as deleting the story after over hearing her exclaim to strangers about how proud she is of me.
2010-08-05 12:21:44 / Rating: 451 /
Daughter
She cried as her daughter and her best friends shaved their heads too, so she wouldn't have to be bald alone.
2010-08-02 16:18:23 / Rating: 690.25 /
J
As my mom drove away, after backing into the corner of our fenced in yard with our 15-passenger van, she yelled at us, "FIX THE FENCE!"
2010-06-08 11:42:09 / Rating: 436 /
Kim
My own mother hated my performance.
2010-04-30 10:26:48 / Rating: 286.75 /
just a plastic tape player
Fifteen years after my question crushed her foot, she called me from the chair lift, about to ski for the first time since I was three.
2010-03-29 14:08:38 / Rating: 333.75 /
Rook
While my mother and her boyfriend were upstairs I quietly removed his size 34 jacket from the back of the chair and replaced it with my nearly identical size 46.
2010-03-03 10:34:32 / Rating: 324.25 /
M
I asked my mother why she'd stopped keeping a journal after I was born and she said, "I was finally happy."
2009-08-20 10:12:45 / Rating: 1027.25 /
Birthday Girl
The mother I remember as a 5-year-old cannot possibly be the same woman who double dog dared me to flash cars on the way home from my 23rd birthday dinner.
2009-08-06 13:58:39 / Rating: 422.25 /
Newly an Orphan
My mom died this morning, leaving me feeling like an almost half-century-old orphan.
2009-07-22 16:00:00 / Rating: 431.25 /
TGB
When I arrived at my dad's house after hearing he had died of a heart attack, the first words my mother said to me were, "Did you tell your dad you are gay?"
2009-06-26 13:42:02 / Rating: 545.75 /
s. c. amory
I realized that I was placating my drunken mother the same way I used pacify to my drunken college friends.
2009-06-02 08:29:47 / Rating: 389 /
renaichan
Seeing Wolverine's naked hiney with my mom was surprisingly not awkward.
2009-05-26 13:39:05 / Rating: 498 /
Purple Sunglasses
When I told my mother I was taking laxatives to avoid gaining weight, her first response was "Did you steal them?"
2009-05-14 14:16:20 / Rating: 402.75 /
Bethy
My mother's reaction to telling her I was almost raped was shock that I said the f-word in fending him off.
2009-04-30 09:23:18 / Rating: 491.5 /
mortified daughter
I began to mentally tally the hours of therapy I'd need to fully recover during my mother's "funny story" about airport security searching her bag and discovering her vibrator.
2009-04-21 09:07:37 / Rating: 441.75 /
DefiantScribbler
We held up our mother like lonely shelved encyclopedias.
2009-03-17 12:10:22 / Rating: 390.75 /
Al
I seriously wasn't expecting *that* long of an awkward silence after her mother joked that we should get back together.
2009-03-16 12:01:30 / Rating: 359.25 /
Jocelyn
After years of proclaiming my extreme objection to cell phones, all it took for me to get one was a message on my voicemail from my mother saying she had to take a cab to the emergency room because I was not home to answer her call.
2009-03-12 13:04:54 / Rating: 397 /
Disappointment of a daughter
She was more upset when I told her I was a vegetarian than when I told her I was a lesbian.
2009-03-11 13:24:40 / Rating: 535.75 /
annoyed
I think what bothers me the most is that my mother pretends not to understand why I will never leave my children alone at their house.
2009-02-12 12:32:54 / Rating: 792.75 /
Living Southern
I've never felt as guilty as when my mother took one look at me the weekend I lost my virginity on a class trip and said, "Something is different about you."
2009-02-02 11:53:56 / Rating: 857.25 /
I shake my head & smile
You know your adult son is home visiting when you find an empty beer can in your shower.
2009-01-30 14:44:37 / Rating: 725 /
Rachel
There was a night early in my childhood when I was certain my mother was going to commit suicide.
2009-01-07 12:44:53 / Rating: 462 /
Nette
For Christmas my husband gave me a broken jaw, bruises and a new life as a single mother.
2009-01-07 10:13:21 / Rating: 678 /
The nerve...
After the doctor told me, "It's a girl," my never-married mother looked into my bundle of joy's eyes and said, "Maybe you will break the cycle and get married first before having a child."
2008-12-22 15:22:44 / Rating: 405.5 /
crybaby
As I lay in bed, wailing and sobbing after hearing news of the horrible accident, you were across the country sending an e-mail telling me not to be so sensitive and upset.
2008-12-05 13:10:58 / Rating: 514 /
Oh, brother.
My mom paused while vacuuming to tell me she's afraid my brother will kill himself, which I've known for the past seven years.
2008-11-09 16:41:27 / Rating: 510.5 /
fancy spatula
When the brain tumor failed to kill her, we were convinced that it's because evil doesn't die.
2008-10-27 15:30:48 / Rating: 664.5 /
Wheat Thin
If my mother had told me I was pretty I wouldn't have put slutty pictures of myself online.
2008-07-25 16:12:31 / Rating: 477.25 /
Eddie
I still have the two huge dictionaries that my mother beat me with as a child.
2008-07-10 15:33:32 / Rating: 555.25 /
Jess
Slightly mortified, I assured my mother incest wasn't really my thing after she warned me against getting into "trouble" with my cousin.
2008-06-25 20:44:46 / Rating: 516 /
Robin
Clearing out your mother's house while she is still alive is emotionally draining and feels wrong.
2008-05-20 13:54:37 / Rating: 361 /
m
My mother forgot to wash the pans between courses, resulting in cherry pie that tasted vaguely of fish, but it was still the best birthday ever.
2008-04-29 12:11:37 / Rating: 573.25 /
Amy
I looked my mother straight in the eyes and told her I would never treat my kids the way she treated me, then I turned from the mirror and walked away.
2008-03-12 17:44:27 / Rating: 725.75 /
Eerie
Her first attempt at CPR shouldn't have to have been on her own mother.
2008-01-18 10:52:35 / Rating: 617.5 /
Someone Else Entirely
Without taking her eyes off the magazine my mother casually told me, "Ya know, your first grade teacher was sure you were retarded or something."
2007-12-13 00:21:37 / Rating: 598 /
Verilain
I never had as long or decent a conversation with my mother as the one after I'd hit the deer and totaled the car.
2007-10-30 14:23:23 / Rating: 499.75 /
ivana
The 1/32nd dose of the experimental drug cut her cancer in half, and I can't help but wonder if she would be alive today if they would have just given her a full therapeutic dose.
2007-10-03 10:03:41 / Rating: 727 /
ivana
My first kiss happened just months after my mother died.
2007-10-03 10:01:33 / Rating: 723 /
Juju
She was too drunk to notice how drunk I was.
2007-09-27 12:28:59 / Rating: 651 /
Rob
It's sad that my mother's cancer-filled dog seemed more frisky and alert on the day before he was put to sleep than he had been in years.
2007-09-11 12:56:24 / Rating: 692.75 /
Gretchen
Tomorrow we will drive our son to college, get him set up in his dorm room, marvel at what a great school he will be attending, help him settle in, hug and kiss him goodbye and then cry the entire way home, the backseat entirely too empty.
2007-08-23 18:02:22 / Rating: 651.75 /
Ken
My mom would have been a wonderful grandmother.
2007-08-01 12:37:24 / Rating: 722.5 /
Jamfir
Later, I would realize that I cried harder when my dog died than I did at Mom's funeral.
2007-07-23 13:30:06 / Rating: 721 /
J. Puer
Having bent all of our spoons my mother finally bought an ice cream scoop.
2007-07-02 14:35:38 / Rating: 650 /
Squeek
As the belt loop on my pants broke at the rehearsal for my brother's wedding, my mother told me I was fat when I only weigh 110 pounds.
2007-05-30 13:36:46 / Rating: 573.75 /
Juju
My mother forgot.
2007-05-24 23:40:33 / Rating: 480.75 /
Going Like Sixty
Mother marched me right back into the store where I had just shoplifted a small toy.
2007-04-11 10:39:18 / Rating: 518.25 /
One Regret
I said "fuck you" to my mother.
2007-04-09 16:49:44 / Rating: 475 /
E.M.
I didn't tell my mom when I got my period, even though I promised that I would.
2007-04-03 14:41:37 / Rating: 537.5 /
Torano
My mother, being enraged, screamed "You son of a bitch", to which I replied, "Yes, I am."
2007-03-28 17:07:09 / Rating: 942 /
MissMoppy
After searching for a Gothic Lolita dress for two days and narrowing it down to six choices, my mother decided on another one I liked that I wasn't considering because it was out of the agreed upon price range.
2007-02-12 12:33:51 / Rating: 429.75 /
Beth
The car was packed and loaded, and with tears in my eyes I hugged my son and said goodbye.
2006-12-10 13:14:36 / Rating: 658 /
MIA Robin
My mother took great delight in pointing out my shyness to strangers who were kinder to me than she ever was.
2006-12-04 15:33:27 / Rating: 659.25 /
cparisb4udie
I wondered why I was having trouble grieving the death of my mother when the counselor figured out I had not grieved the death of HER mother only 12 years earlier.
2006-09-11 21:50:59 / Rating: 751.5 /
Melanie
I knew it was bad that day when my mother showed me her wrists, "I cut myself again."
2006-08-14 20:11:00 / Rating: 542 /
Eugene
In the days after my mother died, we found innumerable small boxes tucked away in the drawers and corners of our house, on each box a label and on each label a name that was not mine.
2006-08-11 09:06:34 / Rating: 679.75 /