I’ve Hated Mother’s Day Since 2012

This year, instead of drinking alone, I’m going to write a story.

Mother’s Day, 15 years ago

Every year on Mother’s Day weekend for the last 10 years I struggle through a meal with my son trying to keep it together when what I actually feel like doing is chugging a full glass of whiskey and smashing the glass, right in the middle of the floor of the restaurant, then stumbling out the…