Letter from the Editor: Once ... strike that ... twice in a career, a writer should write about his mom

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day.MLive graphic

Readers: I am off this week. In honor of Mother’s Day, we are re-running a tribute I wrote to my mother in 2008, when I was editor of The Bay City Times.

I’ve put it off for almost 30 years, for a variety of reasons. First, one man’s heartfelt tribute is prone to be another man’s “sappy.” That’s why Hallmark sells 1,600 varieties of Mother’s Day cards.

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