by Gina Ardito | May 8, 2016 | Divorcing Your Family, Family, Holidays, Mother, Mother's Day, Toxic Parents
For the last twenty years or so, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Mother’s Day. As a mom, I love the way my husband and kids have always surprised me with breakfasts in bed, the perfect cards, and idyllic days spent together.The PastAs a daughter,...
by Gina Ardito | Jun 26, 2013 | Avalon Books, Booksignings, comparisons, Fifty Shades of Gray, idiocy, Mother, Stephen King, The Bonds of Matri-money
In the 1996 film, Mother, sci-fi author John Henderson (played by Albert Brooks) is constantly compared to Stephen King. Although he smiles through the comments from well-meaning but ignorant strangers (and his mother, played by a feisty and acerbic Debbie Reynolds),...