Me, MOM, And A Thousand SEABIRDS

LEIGH NEWMAN

My mother is a loving, complicated woman who has a loving, complicated best friend who in this essay…we’ll call Jane Bolton. Both are addicted to twinsets and travel. The only hitch in their relationship is that her best friend has unlimited resources… and my mother doesn’t. Whenever they chat on the phone, something invariably comes up about the QE2 transatlantic crossing or the Paul Gauguin ship around Tahiti. Then I get a call from my mother, a few months later, saying, “Can you believe it! Jane Bolton booked the QE2! She stole my dream trip, honey! She stole my dream!” I adore them both, but I have always abstained from commentary. That is, until Jane Bolton stole my mother’s Lindblad Expeditions cruise to the Galápagos Islands. Something in me broke.…

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O, Quarterly (Digital) - 1 Issue, Holiday 2024

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