10/9/2023 — Dear Mom,
A series of letters to my dead mother on the first anniversary of her passing.
2 min readOct 9, 2023
Today is Columbus Day/Indigenous People’s Day.
That last conversation I ever had with you was last year on this day. The date was 10/10/2022, but the federal holiday was the same.
It was 10:30 am, and I heard the garbage truck barreling down my street. We had not planned on garbage collection because of the holiday. Mike and I did the garbage for y’all every week, but we hadn’t the night before because of the…
