Table of Contents
Preface v
Keeping Up 1
Keeping Up Daphne Marlatt 3
Last Summer in the Old Craig House E. Alex Pierce 8
Slingbacks Myrna Garanis 9
Combustion Lorri Neilsen Glenn 10
Silver Bangles Margaret Zielinski 12
My Mother Does Not Appear Sheila Norgate 13
Table 17
Table Diane Schoemperlen 19
Kitchen Crew Cindy Dean-Morrison 23
Sweet Red Peppers Liz Zetlin 25
Haifa Pound of Tea Maureen Hynes 27
Advice from My Mother Concerning Root Vegetables Marilynn Rudi 29
Discontinued China Pattern Myrna Garanis 31
A Taste of Lemon Rosemary Clewes 32
Royal Jelly Marilyn Gear Pilling 33
What I Didn't Know Then Liz Zetlin 35
Happy and Lucky Judy Fong Bates 38
Play School 43
Play School Betsy Struthers 45
Assembly Line Alice Major 49
Familiar Blue Coat Joanne Page 51
The Sour Red Cherries Marilyn Gear Pilling 53
At the Corner of Sunset and Virginia Jane Munro 55
Who's Sorry Now? Jeanette Lynes 62
The Gift Ruth Roach Pierson 63
My Life is Not My Own Carla Hartsfield 68
Moving Elizabeth Greene 74
The Tory Candidate Comes to Call Alice Major 75
My Mother Taught Me Zöe Landale 76
Overcoats: hers and hers Susan Helwig 82
Make It Glow Penn Kemp 83
Not Dick and Jane 85
My Mother, My 1950s Sharon Thesen 87
Let Us Answer to Our Names Marilynn Rudi 91
The House with Many Doors Marjorie Simmins 93
Perfume Kate Braid 99
Geranium Lorri Neilsen Glenn 100
Dusk, If That Leanne Averbach 102
Survival Part Two: On Being a Mother in a New Land Marsha Lederman 103
The Dirty Blonde in the Yellow Pajamas Deb Loughead 109
Birth Mother: Phone Call Susan Helwig 115
In My Blood Shauna Butterwick 116
Godmother Sylvia Hamilton 118
The Forward Look 123
The Girls in the Snapshot Janet Barkhouse 125
The Forward Look Janice Acton 126
Something Different Frances Boyle 134
The Alien Com Pam Thomas 136
In Her Hands Pat Clifford 142
Hoop Jeanette Lynes 148
Mary (Foley) Doyle Marjorie Doyle 149
Reading Shakespeare E. Alex Pierce 152
The Same Roof Denise Chong 153
The Mad and Beautiful Mothers 157
The Mad and Beautiful Mothers Patricia Young 159
Rescuing Mickey Sarah Murphy 161
Eulogy for Eunice Mary Jane Copps 166
Good mother deborah schnitzer 171
Split Carol Bruneau 176
Manhattan Clarissa Green 182
Jewish Oil Brat Davi Walders 183
Blue Medicine Maureen Hynes 185
Getting Ready 187
Making Up Mother Isabel Huggan 189
Solo Marilyn Gear Pilling 193
Getting ready Lynda Monahan 195
Extended Care Rhona McAdam 196
The Night She Died Lekkie Hopkins 198
Apartment 1422 Allison Marion 200
Third Yahrzeit Davi Walders 204
My mother's name was nancy Lynda Monahan 206
Borders Eve Joseph 208
Weeding, Late Summer Sue Chenette 213
Wearing My Mother's Dresses Cynthia Woodman Kerkham 214
Your Hands Cynthia French 216
Devil's Apron Lorri Neilsen Glenn 219
Water to Water Margaret Zielinski 225
Acknowledgements 227
Contributors 231
