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: 55.25 / 
Story archives - tag: "mother"
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: 631.5 /
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: 209.5 /
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: 160 /
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: 232.75 /
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: 136.5 /
renaichan
Seeing Wolverine's naked hiney with my mom was surprisingly not awkward.
2009-05-26 13:39:05 / Rating: 193.25 /
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: 196.25 /
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: 279 /
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: 259.5 /
DefiantScribbler
We held up our mother like lonely shelved encyclopedias.
2009-03-17 12:10:22 / Rating: 170.5 /
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: 154 /
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: 228.25 /
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: 288.25 /
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: 431.75 /
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: 603.25 /
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: 451.25 /
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: 176.5 /
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: 427.25 /
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: 213.75 /
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: 223.5 /
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: 251.75 /
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: 417.25 /
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: 315.25 /
Eddie
I still have the two huge dictionaries that my mother beat me with as a child.
2008-07-10 15:33:32 / Rating: 299.25 /
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: 282.25 /
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: 221.75 /
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: 326.25 /
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: 526.75 /
Eerie
Her first attempt at CPR shouldn't have to have been on her own mother.
2008-01-18 10:52:35 / Rating: 321.75 /
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: 394.5 /
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: 302.25 /
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: 338 /
ivana
My first kiss happened just months after my mother died.
2007-10-03 10:01:33 / Rating: 364 /
Juju
She was too drunk to notice how drunk I was.
2007-09-27 12:28:59 / Rating: 331.5 /
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: 376.5 /
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: 389.75 /
Ken
My mom would have been a wonderful grandmother.
2007-08-01 12:37:24 / Rating: 448.75 /
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: 395.5 /
J. Puer
Having bent all of our spoons my mother finally bought an ice cream scoop.
2007-07-02 14:35:38 / Rating: 402 /
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: 331 /
Juju
My mother forgot.
2007-05-24 23:40:33 / Rating: 310.25 /
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: 292 /
One Regret
I said "fuck you" to my mother.
2007-04-09 16:49:44 / Rating: 315.75 /
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: 332.5 /
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: 657.25 /
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: 261 /
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: 376 /
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: 377 /
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: 413.25 /
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: 326 /
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: 410.75 /