Happy Mother's Day

Remembering all the women who play the role of mother

Today is Mother’s Day in the United States of America.

My mother died when I was 34, so I was an adult. However, since I was 6, when my father died, I had always felt an underlying, anxious feeling of dread, wondering what if something ever happened to my mother?

My mother, just 35 at the time, was a young widow, tasked with raising and supporting me, and…