'Brian, ya little weasel!'

And other links for your Sunday

I’ve been a mother for just over 14 years now. And I’ve been a writer for even longer than that. As a mother and a writer, I have been conscripted, willingly or otherwise, into having takes on Mother’s Day for over a decade now.

And you know what? I simply don’t want to do it this year.

If you’d like to read about Mother’s Day today, here are some links to a couple of my past articles and one by

Megan Pillow

.

• “The cost of being human” — On experiencing Mother’s Day as a single mom

• “A single mom’s manifesto for Mother’s Day” — this is an essay by the talented

  Megan Pillow
  , who writes about the radical roots of the holiday

• I also wrote about Mother’s Day in 2020 for MSNBC

• And listen, I wrote an ENTIRE book about motherhood

Instead, today, I am going to give you mothers (and everyone else), what you really want: A funny story about me causing mayhem and getting a Trump supporter yelled at by drunk Irish women at a castle in Clifden.

Let me explain.