What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (What We Don't Talk About)

by Michele Filgate

They hold a mock funeral for “the good old days.” They don’t realize they are living the good old days, the ones they will someday look back on, the ones a daughter might look back on, too—as if she is peering over the shoulders of their ghosts, hungry for the lives they once lived.