Motherhood

For the of All Things Holy, Let’s All Stop Pretending on Mother’s Day

Gloria Panzera
7 min readMay 10, 2021

Mother’s Day might be the only holiday that makes people feel worse.

Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay

I was somewhere around the age of thirteen or fourteen when I was realized Mother’s Day is way more complicated than we let on. My dad had pulled my sisters and me out to the garage and handed us a card he’d signed and a flowering…

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Gloria Panzera

Writer, wife, mother, amateur movie critic, wannabe foodie, lover of coffee, wine and books. Check out my work at gloriapanzera.com and twitter @gloriapanzera.