“I’m coming home,” Josie chirped when Annabelle answered the phone. “What can I get for you, Mom?”
“And why would I need you, useless as you are?”
Mother’s words cut through the distance, piercing deep into Josie’s heart. Numb, she hung up and tried to steady her trembling hands.
She made herself a cup of tea, grabbed her ticket from the table and tore it into shreds. She sat in silence for a while sipping her favourite oolong, feeling nothing but pain. [Read more…]
How well do you remember your childhood?
A few fragments of painful scenes and flashes of your tears? Angry expression on your mother’s face? And rare moments of joy… if you’re lucky?
I know.
Most of your childhood you felt insecure, anxious and lonely.
You believed that something was wrong.
With you. [Read more…]
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
~Ernest Hemingway
Honestly, how do you feel about your mom?
Do you enjoy her company or avoid her like a sunburn?
Does her number on your cell phone screen make your heart fall into your feet?
Is she the one who knows it all?
Then you’re in the right place. Keep reading.
So your Mom’s always right. She likes talking about her smart self, even to your friends. Never listens and dismisses you as if you were saying nonsense. [Read more…]
