Head and shoulders photo of my dad, smiling wide and wearing a ball cap

tfw your 91-yr-old dad lends your poetry book about your mother’s mental illness to yet another neighbor, this time an 80-something vet, and she loves it. @icefloepress.bsky.social #Poetry #ThanksDad #NoStigma #TalkSmackToAHurricane

Dark-haired young woman in a one-piece bathing suit, standing on a sandy-grassy beach.

Mama would’ve been 91 yo today. April Fool’s baby who thought her parents really wanted a boy, who never thought she was pretty, who had 100s of shock treatments that emptied her good memories, who loved me fiercely—though I didn’t feel it for years #Motherhood #MentalIllness #TalkSmackToAHurricane