Love in the Ruins, Walker Percy?

Not so surprising near Harvard and M.I.T. as it would be if I discovered that about my congressional district.

Well, yeah. Thing is, I know I'm only a couple blocks from MIT, but I tend to forget about it. We're not exactly Harvard Square where I live.

Was the original entry one that lambasted the holiday?

This is me trying to think about it objectively: I don't think so. By which I mean, I don't think she intended it to be. It's probably possible to interpret it that way -- she said she didn't need a madeup holiday to remind her, so I suppose people could take that as lambasting -- but I think she was just... saying.

When I don't celebrate a holiday, I don't resent the mere mention of it, and bitch as if anyone who could get enjoyment from it was either a dupe of the mega corporations, or a deluded fool.

I was just thinking, most of the posts I've seen railing against such days are made by people who do celebrate them -- and hate it. Honestly, the amount of posts made by people whose mothers threw apocalyptic sulks if they didn't get the present/dinner/brunch/devotion that they thought they deserved made me really wonder if it doesn't do more harm than good!

But then again, one imagines those particular mother-child relationships are a bit guilt-laden at the best of times, and it's not the day's fault.

By the way, I don't not celebrate Mother's Day because I disapprove (although I admit I'm not big on scheduled holidays anyway, maybe due to my forgetfulness), but rather because my mother has never been home for it. She's always said her mother's day present was being away from her kids for the day. Okay, that sounds mean and disfunctional, but actually it's funny.

Holy crap. That's it.

I read a lot of really random stuff for that class.

I'm trying to decide if it was the southern, the clinical sex studies or the gin fizzes that made the connection, -t.

I don't celebrate Mother's Day because I usually don't remember it's happened until my mom's birthday rolls around two weeks later. (Conversely, I always remember Father's Day because it's in the middle of three family birthdays.)

I celebrate it because I married into a family that does.

And I hate it. I think it is a wicked, nasty excuse to sell cards.

I'm trying to work out how I recognized it from your description, sarameg. I read that 20+ years ago. It just sounded like Walker Percy, though. I did google for a list of his titles before deciding that was my best bet.

Mom said this year "don't make a big deal" out of Mother's Day. And I didn't and she was hurt. Actually I think she was more hurt that my brother didn't send her an email and she took it out on me.

She's going up to OK for 2 weeks and she hates travelling. Loves seeing her sister and Mother, hates sleeping in a strange bed in a strange town. So I'm going to do a Welcome Home package thing for her when she gets back and hope that makes up for her not getting stuff for Mother's Day.

I think we also read the Thanatos one. It's been 10 years since I've read them. Strange, strange stories.

OMG bored. I'm doing work and it's boring, I'm not doing work and that's boring. Argh.