I Miss My Mother This Mother’s Day

I regret I didn’t recognize her wisdom when she was alive

Geri Spieler
ILLUMINATION
Published in
2 min readMay 12, 2023

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Photo by Juan Pablo-Serrano for Pexel

It just doesn’t get easier every year after she died.

My mother was not your typical mom with cookies when you came home from school. I was a latch-key kid, meaning I came home to an empty house as my mother had to work to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

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Geri Spieler
ILLUMINATION

Award-winning writer, master researcher, journalist, former Gartner analyst, non-fiction author. Reach me at gspieler@gmail.com