Loved both of your memoirs. I grew up in the Finger Lakes and your Mother of all Mother's Day story is a favorite. Feels like home as you describe the hillside scene with its view of Cayuga Lake. The image of the notes of the songs going out to the farms and vineyards surrounding the lake has me revisiting the landscape I know by heart. Thank you!
I've loved your advice columns and consider your newsletter a weekly gift. Mother's Day has brought back both sad and happy memories over the years, but now they're the best with love freely given and received with my wonderful adult sons --- even though we're on opposite sides of the country.
Thank you for sharing your Mother's Day story. It warmed my heart.
Loved this today. I know it can be a fraught day for many but, I must be the luckiest stepmom in the world as I have never dreaded Mother’s Day. My daughter and son in law honor me every year and it means the world to me.
My Mother's Day is always bittersweet as I miss my mom who passed away over a decade ago. She was the one who, as my friend said, 'collected kids, the way that some folks collect teacups'. It is also a day filled with joy when I get re-connected with my own 'collected kids' from all over the world who had lived with us over the years as exchange students.
PS - The BEST song on the Cornell chimes is the theme from Star Wars!
I have loved reading your columns, newsletter and books. You continue to show me the real side of life, not a homogenized version of some columnists. Thank you!
I didn't cry at my mom's funeral. Or my dad's. None of the hymns I picked out were played and, mainly, I just wanted to get away from the catholic church. I've never been close to religion and I just wanted it to be over. I don't care what people think. I'm 75 and I still regard it as a huge joke.
So funny, I already did the exact same thing, about 20 minutes ago, that Paula wrote bellow my comment here. It fits so perfectly into a family conversation we had yesterday. It was like you wrote that for us! Love your “letters”. I take them personally and find them useful and enjoyable. Thank you for exposing yourself Amy. There are times I feel like I’m peeking through my fingers!🥰😷🥰
Thank you so much for sharing my work with others, Rose Marie. We're all "peeking through our fingers" from time to time...! That's what makes my Q and A so uncomfortably relatable.
I appreciate your humor, your musings. I am taking your quote from the ending of your memoir and sharing on "the facebook", giving credit, of course. It says a lot very well. Write on, Amy write on.
Thank you so much, you’ve brought back great memories for me…my mom has been gone for 20 years and I still wish I could pick up the phone and have a long conversation with her…have a blessed Mother’s Day!
“ I imagined the music sweeping down the slope and across the lake, entering the falling-down dairy barns and the farmhouses, running up wooden staircases, brushing over quilted beds and spilling out of open windows before disappearing into the fields and forests beyond.”. So poetic.
Loved both of your memoirs. I grew up in the Finger Lakes and your Mother of all Mother's Day story is a favorite. Feels like home as you describe the hillside scene with its view of Cayuga Lake. The image of the notes of the songs going out to the farms and vineyards surrounding the lake has me revisiting the landscape I know by heart. Thank you!
Thank you, Kathy. I'm happy to bring you little slices of home.
I've loved your advice columns and consider your newsletter a weekly gift. Mother's Day has brought back both sad and happy memories over the years, but now they're the best with love freely given and received with my wonderful adult sons --- even though we're on opposite sides of the country.
Thank you for sharing your Mother's Day story. It warmed my heart.
Thank you for your kindness, Natalie.
Loved this today. I know it can be a fraught day for many but, I must be the luckiest stepmom in the world as I have never dreaded Mother’s Day. My daughter and son in law honor me every year and it means the world to me.
I'm so happy you have dodged the annual awkwardness!
I love your writing and have read all of your books. I’m so happy to have found your newsletter!
Awww Gail -- thank you.
My Mother's Day is always bittersweet as I miss my mom who passed away over a decade ago. She was the one who, as my friend said, 'collected kids, the way that some folks collect teacups'. It is also a day filled with joy when I get re-connected with my own 'collected kids' from all over the world who had lived with us over the years as exchange students.
PS - The BEST song on the Cornell chimes is the theme from Star Wars!
The end of your memoir was wonderful! Thank you for your thoughts and wisdom.
Thank you so much. It has truly been a joy to experience my own happy ending.
loved the mother’s day story- I remember it from your memoir! the newsletter is fabulous
Thank you, Roberta!
I have loved reading your columns, newsletter and books. You continue to show me the real side of life, not a homogenized version of some columnists. Thank you!
I didn't cry at my mom's funeral. Or my dad's. None of the hymns I picked out were played and, mainly, I just wanted to get away from the catholic church. I've never been close to religion and I just wanted it to be over. I don't care what people think. I'm 75 and I still regard it as a huge joke.
So funny, I already did the exact same thing, about 20 minutes ago, that Paula wrote bellow my comment here. It fits so perfectly into a family conversation we had yesterday. It was like you wrote that for us! Love your “letters”. I take them personally and find them useful and enjoyable. Thank you for exposing yourself Amy. There are times I feel like I’m peeking through my fingers!🥰😷🥰
Thank you so much for sharing my work with others, Rose Marie. We're all "peeking through our fingers" from time to time...! That's what makes my Q and A so uncomfortably relatable.
I appreciate your humor, your musings. I am taking your quote from the ending of your memoir and sharing on "the facebook", giving credit, of course. It says a lot very well. Write on, Amy write on.
Lovely, Paula. Thank you so much.
Love today’s newsletter. Thanks!
Thank you for the good word. I really appreciate it.
Thank you so much, you’ve brought back great memories for me…my mom has been gone for 20 years and I still wish I could pick up the phone and have a long conversation with her…have a blessed Mother’s Day!
Thank you, Susan -- I'd give anything to be able to talk to my mother again...I guess that means our moms were really good parents -- and friends.
I love EVERY part of your newsletter...and books as well....and look forward to seeing it every Sunday in my inbox. Thank you....sincerely!!!
Yay Jeanne! Thank you.
“ I imagined the music sweeping down the slope and across the lake, entering the falling-down dairy barns and the farmhouses, running up wooden staircases, brushing over quilted beds and spilling out of open windows before disappearing into the fields and forests beyond.”. So poetic.
Thank you -- that passage truly was a joy to write.