JFK asks his mother (after Cuban Missile Crisis) not to contact Khrushchev again without asking him

[Solly Mack]

1. Mothers will mother.

Sometimes they mother well. Sometimes they mother-fuck. And sometimes they mother knows best.

Same with fathers.

If we could choose our mothers, we'd all have been raised my Mary Poppins (so I was once told).

Which was a strange thing to say to a child who was complaining about the sugar-coated bullshit they were being asked to swallow.

My mom died in '92. She was family peace-keeper to a no justice-no peace child.