Mother load / Things to remember not to forget / Radical promises / Heart speaks / Garden variety mothering / My mother at fifty / Beyond the family party face / Mother-daughter therapy / Cutting the purse strings / A willing sacrifice / Whole point of motherhood / In the offing / Poison pens / Not the daughter she had in mind / Forgive me / Vinnie and Inky and Margaret and me / A well-earned soak / This is what matters / Other people's mothers / Say you, say me / Nothing else seems as true as this / A girl grows in Brooklyn / What must have seemed like grace / Possibility of you / Phone buddies / Mother hunting / Knowing what to listen for / Body remembers / My mother's dating advice / A day at the beach / Here be dragons / What I would tell her / Inside the house and out / "Don't interrupt me unless your eyes are bleeding"