Every Day Is Mother’s Day Tour, Carleen Brice – 5/11/2008
By APOOO • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Every Day is Mother's Day •
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About Me: Carleen Brice is a wife, a daughter, a sister, an auntie, a granddaughter, a niece, a friend, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a keeper of cats. Her latest book is Orange Mint and Honey, which Essence magazine says “will have you hooked from page one.”
Favorite flower: Roses (particular “Mr. Lincoln”) from my own yard
Favorite drinks: Coffee and Margaritas
Favorite pastimes: reading, watching movies
Favorite vacation destination: any beach
Favorite tea: orange mint, with honey (of course!)
Favorite bath and body scent: lavender
Favorite makeup brand: none
Manicure or pedicure: Pedi! (can I have one now?)
Facial or massage: Massage (can I have two now?)
Favorite song (right now on your play list): Just Fine by Mary J.
For the Motherless Ones
I started this post with very different intentions, but this is what came out: I want to pay tribute to those of us who are motherless. For all of us who have to mother ourselves. Maybe our mothers have passed away. Maybe they live still but abandoned us. Or maybe they stayed but can’t/don’t/won’t give us what we need.
I am a motherless child. I was birthed by a teenage mother who did the best she could, but sometimes it was not good enough. Sometimes even though she was around, I was on my own. In some ways I raised myself (and her too).
Then when I was 28 she died, and I missed her best-that-sometimes-wasn’t-good-enough. I still do.
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My mother was a motherless one. Her mom died when she was 2 years old in childbirth. The lonliness from that still resonates with her. It’s amazing to me that someone who was rasied without a mother could be such an awesome one. She had various aunts and older cousins take care of her, but I tell you, there’s no one like my mom. I wish I was half the woman.
I’d love to win this book. I’ve heard it was excellent.