How Does a Mother Feel?

A mother feels big and fat and squishy, when she doesn’t feel small, warm, and sharp around the knees and elbows. She feels softer than not. The feel of her hands is rough like a cat’s tongue and gentle and cruel, all depending, with sharpish nails and broad, fleshy palms. Sometimes a mother’s hair feels […]
Ingrid Bergman You’re So Pretty

I saw a film about Ingrid Bergman last weekend called “Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words.” It was a documentary that included not only her words, but home movies of her as well, recorded in the misty past before video. In some ways the film was almost amateurish and thus at odds with a woman […]