MoMoirs are a kind of literary apron strings. A MoMoir is a way of holding on to your children long after you?ve actually let them go; of remembering and recapturing your mother and your relationship with her. The whole idea for MoMoirs came about when my daughter Charlotte casually announced that she had 209 days left before she got her driver?s license. How could that be? She had just recently learned to walk. How could she suddenly be old enough to drive? Where had the time gone? That was the day I came up with the MoMoirs concept?a way of capturing my daughter and my feelings about her before she literally drove out of my life. I kept a daily journal for the next six months. The whole undertaking was totally gratifying. It allowed me to indelibly engrave my daughter in my mind. I introduced the MoMoirs workshop to my three friends. We met nearly every week for two years. We wrote, we laughed, and of course we cried. The stories we shared were all about us, our mothers and our children, our heartbreaks and our deepest joys. We hope this collection of stories gives you something to cry about, laugh with and enjoy.