How My Sister and I Reclaimed Mother’s Day

Nita Sweeney
3 min readMay 10, 2020

I don’t remember which one of us decided to reclaim Mother’s Day, but it began with an impromptu day-long road trip. With little fanfare or notice to anyone except Ed, the #onehundredpercentgoodhusband, my sister Amy and I hopped in her convertible and drove north up Route 23 to Putnam County, the part of Ohio where both of our parents were born and grew up. We visited our grandparents’ houses, the cemeteries where…

Nita Sweeney

Award-winning author of Make Every Move a Meditation and Depression Hates a Moving Target. Ultramarathoner, mindfulness coach, mental health advocate, dog mom.