It's a Girl -- Women Writers on Raising Daughters
Andrea J. Buchanan (Editor)
200 pages
Seal Press, 2006
Today is the last in the occasional book tour series. And wouldn't you know, like the girl I was in college, I had two fabulous runs through the midterms, but I didn't study for the final.
Actually, good analogy, but not quite true. When I got the book in the mail, I asked my mom if she'd like to read it and write a guest entry about the collected essays, or being a mother to a grown daughter, or a synopsis of the reign of Elizabeth I. Really, anything. I just wanted to get my mom involved here. Because my mom? Is awesome.
But Mom got sick. Pneumonia in the middle of April, an opportunistic infection on top of the worst mulberry allergy season in recent memory. She's fine now -- a trooper, my mother -- but not in a position to come here and fawn all over her life as a mother to a daughter.
However, if you were to push, she would say one of the best times in her life was when she was pregnant with me. Oh, she loved being pregnant with me. When she talks about the pregnancy that resulted in the me, she gets this far-off look and her eye and her smile widens to show off all of her teeth.
I was apparently the best pregnancy in the history of pregnancies.
Post-pregnancy, I don't know. If you ask her what I was like as a kid, she talks about the sweet three-year-old who dragged around the green blanket and sucked her thumb and loved her mommy. And between you and me, I think this means post age three, I was a holy terror. Which would be par for the course, come to think on it.
Sorry, Ma.
But this week is huge for Andrea! She's on the Today show! She's being profiled in USAToday! She's everywhere! I'm so proud of her, and congratulate her on all she's accomplished with her project. She is the mother of five: two children, three books, and I couldn't imagine her being prouder.
So, if you know someone who is a mother to a daughter, or you're a daughter, or you're looking for a Mother's Day gift, or you just want to have John Mayer's "Daughter" loop in your head endlessly, pick up the collection. Make your mama proud.
Andrea J. Buchanan (Editor)
200 pages
Seal Press, 2006
Today is the last in the occasional book tour series. And wouldn't you know, like the girl I was in college, I had two fabulous runs through the midterms, but I didn't study for the final.
Actually, good analogy, but not quite true. When I got the book in the mail, I asked my mom if she'd like to read it and write a guest entry about the collected essays, or being a mother to a grown daughter, or a synopsis of the reign of Elizabeth I. Really, anything. I just wanted to get my mom involved here. Because my mom? Is awesome.
But Mom got sick. Pneumonia in the middle of April, an opportunistic infection on top of the worst mulberry allergy season in recent memory. She's fine now -- a trooper, my mother -- but not in a position to come here and fawn all over her life as a mother to a daughter.
However, if you were to push, she would say one of the best times in her life was when she was pregnant with me. Oh, she loved being pregnant with me. When she talks about the pregnancy that resulted in the me, she gets this far-off look and her eye and her smile widens to show off all of her teeth.
I was apparently the best pregnancy in the history of pregnancies.
Post-pregnancy, I don't know. If you ask her what I was like as a kid, she talks about the sweet three-year-old who dragged around the green blanket and sucked her thumb and loved her mommy. And between you and me, I think this means post age three, I was a holy terror. Which would be par for the course, come to think on it.
Sorry, Ma.
But this week is huge for Andrea! She's on the Today show! She's being profiled in USAToday! She's everywhere! I'm so proud of her, and congratulate her on all she's accomplished with her project. She is the mother of five: two children, three books, and I couldn't imagine her being prouder.
So, if you know someone who is a mother to a daughter, or you're a daughter, or you're looking for a Mother's Day gift, or you just want to have John Mayer's "Daughter" loop in your head endlessly, pick up the collection. Make your mama proud.
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