'I’ll be spinning out about some tiny inconvenience, and she’ll give me some practical advice. Then she’ll say, 'One day I will die a slow, painful death, and you will be shocked you were ever this upset about something so small''
Photo-Illustration: by the Cut; Photos courtesy of the subject. They say we become our mothers. I wish; Sherry Roberson is like me but cool and universally beloved. I got her cackle and her daily habit of drinking an amount of coffee roughly equivalent to the total volume of blood in the average human, but I failed to absorb most of her wisdom and her basic knowledge of how much a person should spend on a wedding gift. So I call my mom for advice constantly.
My mom is my go-to resource for any question of etiquette. She’s gracious and practical, and my lodestar is “trying not to do anything that would mortify her.” I call her about condolence notes and about regifting protocol. Is it weird to send someone a letter about how great a mom I think they’re going to be? Is it weird to buy a baby a set of wooden mushrooms, or is that exactly the kind of thing an artistic, woodsy baby would love? You know who would know? Sherry Roberson.
The past two years have opened up a whole new category of questions for my mom. Here are my symptoms, do you think I should get tested? I feel hot, but I don’t have a temperature, should I get tested? My throat hurts imperceptibly, should I get tested? By the time I actually got COVID, I was like the girl who cried wolf. “Oh my! Get well soon,” she says and then moves to the next topic of conversation.
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