Wounded People Wound Their Children

And there are a lot of wounded people in the world

Photo by Brian Patrick Tagalog on Unsplash

The more I read about mother-daughter relationships and the more I write about my own, the more convinced I am that the real shame is that we can’t do what sea turtles do. They swim to shore, lumber up onto the beach, climb into the dunes and dig a hole. There they deposit a hundred or so leathery, golf-ball-sized eggs…