Today seems to be the day for long stories.  I decided I wanted to keep this one as a whole, rather than split it into Parts 1 and 2, so it is a little longer than your average blogpost. (Dear readers, every Sunday I will be featuring stories written by guest male bloggers.  To see [...]

I’m not a mother. My mother’s gone and so are my grandmothers, and while I have plenty of aunts, I’m not really close to any of them.  So I’m not feeling the Mother’s Day love, sorry.  Plus, I’ve always put Mother’s Day in that category of greeting card holidays that only exist so that people [...]