tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37429048.post5037329755341081171..comments2023-10-29T06:27:51.301-07:00Comments on Experiments in Memoir: MOTHER VISIT - Part TwoMartaSzabohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554422492794060801noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37429048.post-5847049804716383832007-03-17T13:26:00.000-07:002007-03-17T13:26:00.000-07:00Beautiful and brilliant, the very best sort of wri...Beautiful and brilliant, the very best sort of writing about the most important sort of story -- and a reproach to the cowards who shield themslves in smarmy gentility in order to avoid actual, not sugar-coated, versions of real lives.<BR/><BR/>-- King MarshAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37429048.post-70698494120910445482007-03-16T20:22:00.000-07:002007-03-16T20:22:00.000-07:00Suggestions re: what your Mom may be 'trying': she...Suggestions re: what your Mom may be 'trying': she's telling you she loves you -- by a) bringing you gifts b)taking her time to drive the 100 miles round trip to be with you, even if you barely respond to her inquiries about your life and even if your husband 'goes on the attack' when she expresses herself c)giving you a long hug even after both of these have occurred d)asking you about your life and e)returning and continuing to offer her simple gifts to you -- even though you sound like a teen girl who has her arms crossed and just wants to sit in her room and listen to her IPOD. Based on reading your husband's blog to him family is "the cult of family"; it seems you have bought into his version and can't experience the love of others when it's staring you in the face, and that strikes me as such a miss in life. BTW your writing is good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37429048.post-52483538294298304812007-03-10T22:33:00.000-08:002007-03-10T22:33:00.000-08:00Very powerful. You capture so much so well. Than...Very powerful. You capture so much so well. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com