NEW YORK (AP) – Moms. Everybody has one. Not everybody remembers to thank them when it’s well deserved.
In time for Mother’s Day, Lisa Erspamer takes care of that in her third “letter” book, a series of collected missives that has already covered some written by humans to their dogs and cats.
The former TV executive and a team from her Los Angeles production company decided on 64 letters balanced between everyday sons and daughters and celebrities. She told The Associated Press in a recent interview it was actually the death of her dad that inspired her to put together “A Letter to My Mom,” out April 7 from Crown Archetype.
“My father died many, many years ago and when he was on his death bed he wrote all of us letters. After he passed, my mother gave them to us. It’s just a really powerful thing to get,” she said. “I realized the one thing we don’t get from people often is how they really feel.”
Besides, she added: “I think of moms as our first love. They are the first person that we bond with.”