Dear Reader,
Book club reader Nancy G. sent an email that brought me to tears.. "Suzanne, my mom passed away four years ago today, at 92. She was known as the cookie lady--she gave cookies to everyone, just as you do. Waitresses, parking lot attendants, neighbors, handymen…. At her funeral, I asked for a show of hands from everyone who had eaten one of Mom's cookies, and virtually all of the hundred or so people in attendance raised a hand. In lieu of flowers, we asked people to take or send cookies to someone in her memory.
Thanks for sweetening my thoughts of her today with your cookie stories. Keep up the good work!" – Nancy G., Marysville Public Library
(Suzanne replies:) Nancy, reading your email made me think about what happened at my mother's funeral. We had a very distant relationship. I never really got to know much about my mother's past, or what her day-to-day life was like in the small town where I grew up. So I was shocked when I stood in the receiving line at her funeral and almost everyone who walked by told me, "Oh, your mom used to bake cookies and she was always giving them away." ‘Baking cookies and giving them away?' It must be in the genes. All these years of a distant mother/daughter relationship and we could have been talking about cookies.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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