Are You Good At Hearing?

Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 1 p.m.

\u201cShe\u2019s not good at hearing people,\u201d the musician Mikel Jollett writes of his mother in his haunting memoir Hollywood Park. \u201cIf we tell her we\u2019re hungry, she\u2019ll say, \u2018No you\u2019re not. You ate earlier.\u2019 If one of us says \u2018I\u2019m sad,\u2019 she tells us that it\u2019s not true, that we\u2019re happy now because we\u2019re with her.\u201d\u2709\ufe0f Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com\U0001f4f1 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube