A Mother’s Day Rumination About the Best Gift I Ever Gave My Mother

It made her last years happy and opened my heart. Lessons from a lifetime of attempting to see my mother as a person.

Melinda Blau
ILLUMINATION-Curated
9 min readMay 5, 2022

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Photo by Sergiu Vălenaș on Unsplash

In 1993, decades after her death, in one of my “New Family” columns for Child, I wrote with pride about my mother’s relationship with my first born, Jen…

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Melinda Blau
ILLUMINATION-Curated

Writer/speaker/observer of relationships, I'm a hip old lady at large. I cover the dramas we all play out. Writing's a bitch, but it makes me happy.