Thank you to author Angela Nissel for this timely excerpt about her mother from her new memoir Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead (what a title!). From the excerpt:

“When my mom made the unsmooth transition to divorced, single mom, I had to not only share her with my younger brother, but with these two new bitches: Overtime and Double Overtime. Those bitches had always been hovering around, helping our family with Grown Folks Problems, but once my mom became a single parent, they rang our house every night. My mom always happily answered their calls and I didn’t understand why those needy heffas had become so important to her. Hoarding a sliver of my mom’s free time became something young me could only manage on rare weekends when Overtime didn’t call.”