Another memory of mom, Patricia Frances McMichael Yeakey Stiver.
“Who Died and Left You in Charge?”
“Who died and left you in charge?”
was an impolitic way my mother had
of establishing her interlocutor’s
status relative to her own, and it was
never delivered in a motherly voice,
not even close, but with needles of
exact diction that poked in the most
hurtful way – for her, because she said it
out of hurt, a sense of being perpetually
wronged by the life she had been given,
and it did hurt her, not us, her kids,
at whom she aimed it most often.
24 February 2013
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