Sundial

by Catriona Ward

This is another episode in the Great Mom Show. Every so often she tries to bond with me as if she likes me. It doesn’t work, but she gets to feel it’s not her fault, and tell people how difficult I am.

I feel very alone, like all those sad times when Jack wouldn’t speak to me. It’s clear that I push people away. What is wrong with me, that I can’t accept Irving’s love? I cry and think heavily of the ways in which I have failed. But I can’t decide how to fix it.

Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them.

Everyone and their insatiable desire to help.