Mother's Day

​Some of us have been blessed with truly marvelous moms. I’ve always lived in that happy camp and couldn’t imagine how pale life would be without a nurturing mother. Ever curious, I began reading articles about neglectful parenting and researching the lifelong impact of an emotionally distant parent. This became the baseline for my flawed protagonist and my damaged killer in The Stars Prevail.
 
While those characters make for a good read, I remain profoundly grateful for the gentle woman who raised me and five others while dealing with a bipolar alcoholic husband. I don’t know how she pulled it off, but we all managed to land on our feet fairly stable and happily raising children of our own. Maybe that’s when we all began to realize just how much compassion, stability, patience, and joy our mother gifted to us in life.
 
Thanks for always being there, Mom.