We emerged from isolation yesterday to post Mother’s Day cards, the short walk around the corner to the postbox offering a degree of novelty I never thought I would come to crave. I once had an editor who didn’t like the word “mum”. Maybe she thought it was, I don’t know, mumsy, a word that is often used in a derisive tone. Beneath the sickly sentimentality and all the marketing gubbins, Mother’s Day is an opportunity to simply say “thank you” and “I love you”. We all know mothers who are geniuses, mothers who are polymaths, mothers who are great wits, mothers who are hard as nails, mothers who get things done.

Source: The Guardian March 22, 2020 12:00 UTC