How did I honor my mother’s death? By creating a holiday.

How did I honor my mother’s death? By creating a holiday.
By Margo Rabb
Washington Post
December 14, 2023
... For a long time, I had grappled with how to spend the anniversary [of the death of the author’s mother, Renée]. I had never observed it before—normally, I pretended it wasn’t happening—but a quarter-century seemed too momentous to do nothing. My mother had died when I was still in my teens, nine days after being diagnosed with cancer.