Rebecca Trimpe is a writer and editor who lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with her husband, three cats, and a large lady dog of indeterminant breed. She worked as a journalist for over 20 years before starting a career in marketing and communications in higher education, returning to the IUPUI campus where she completed her undergraduate studies. Aside from print media in metropolitan Indianapolis and along the South Carolina coast, she has been published in Genesis, IUPUI’s campus literary magazine.
Things to do after your mother dies…
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Wake up. Turn on your cell. Get pelted with the handful of phone calls you missed. Return one. The person who answers doesn’t want to deliver the news. You know what the person will say. The number of calls and who made them tipped you off. Still need to hear it. Your mother died of a heart attack. No surprise. She’d been throwing her health away with both hands, physical, emotional, mental, most of your life. Hang up. Microburst of tears. You’re not sure why you’re crying. Stop. Not all mothers deserve to be mourned. Yours is one of these. Call your husband. Ask him to tell your son later.
Hit the shower. You’ve got a job to get to. Your mother dying isn’t a tragedy.…
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