This resonated with me. I've been motherless for 23 years, fatherless for 14. I was in my 40s when I became an adult orphan. I also have been a lifelong single.

I hate how everyone and their brother tries to sell something using Mother's Day as a hook. Power tools? Really?

I long ago created an email filter to block the avalanche of Mother's Day messages.

I miss my Mom. I don't miss not becoming a mother myself. I never wanted to have a baby, from my teens. People kept telling me I'd change my mind. I never did.