I’m not a mother but I still like to nurture and make pancakes.

I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try and make us pancakes.
George Carlin

Today was wonderful in the San Francisco bay area. For the first time in months, we got a “real” rain with rivulets and puddles. It rained all day, and it is forcast to rain again tomorrow. It’s been a very dry year, and we need the water.

The rain is raining all around,
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Rain

The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
Poem by Carl Sandburg, Monotone

The night rain, dripping unseen,
Comes endlessly kissing my face and my hands.
Poem by D.H. Lawrence, Embankment at Night, before the War

Who did Mother love the most? When we were alone, she’d say to me “I love you the most, Sera.” It was only later that my sisters and I discovered that she’d said the same thing to each of us.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Quotation from Bill Cosby

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
Quotation from P.J. O’Rourke

Losing my mother was very painful. I developed pneumonia a week afterwards.
I’m in Costa Rica for holiday. I’ll be back soon. Each day while I’m gone, I’ll present a vintage Encore Seraphine comic “rerun” from 2007. I’ve done some light editing on them, but they retain the atmosphere and content of the original. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll have lots of new adventures to share with you when I return.
Happy New Year!

This is a poem I wrote about my mother shortly after she died in July 2007.
I’m in Costa Rica for holiday. I’ll be back soon. Each day while I’m gone, I’ll present a vintage Encore Seraphine comic “rerun” from 2007. I’ve done some light editing on them, but they retain the atmosphere and content of the original. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll have lots of new adventures to share with you when I return.
Happy New Year!

Pentheraphobia is an intense fear of Mother-in-Laws.
It’s the fear of things that (theoretically) pose no
actual danger. It’s kin to the fear of computer cookies,
singing karaoke, being medicated, or being
microchipped (labeled) by strangers or family.
Isn’t there also a phobia for waking up in strange places?

Pictures of Phobias (FreakingNews.com)
Pentheraphobia Treatment (phobia-fear-release.com)

“There are various forms of the disease in which the victim
is unable to say “No.” Some of these forms are more serious
than others, and often lead to electrocution or marriage.”
Quotation by Robert Benchley

I’m currently in Kansas on Holiday. I’ll be back soon.

I’m currently in Kansas on Holiday.
(And no, I didn’t ask for her opinion)

“Satan should be her name
Mother in law, mother in law
To me they’re about the same
Mother in law, mother in law
Everytime I open my mouth
She steps in, tries to put me out
How could she stoop so low?
Mother in law, mother in law
Mother in law, mother in law”
Lyric by Huey Lewis, Mother in Law

It’s hard for me to feel anger today, because
every year I send my mother flowers and a fruit
basket for May Day, and she’s not here anymore.

Anger Management: What Are You So Angry About? (Mayo Clinic)
If God Smites, Why Can’t We? (Beliefnet.com)

“Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter.
Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!”
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche,
Samtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe

“…Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.”
Poem by Robert Burns, Tam O’Shanter