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Asking Amy · May 10, 2026

Mothers Day ... a brief rebuke

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Ruminating on my faults and failings

Every year I find ways to complain about Mothers Day, but … I know this is not particularly helpful, especially to the people in my life who just want to get it right.

What a bind it puts them in, knowing that I am so ambivalent about this day, while also knowing that they really must find a way to acknowledge it.

Sigh. Yet another way I have failed these daughters of mine. For me, Mothers Day seems to bring on extended rumination on my faults and failings.

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