I took a visit to "I Hate the War on Rob Ford". Their new post is a Mother's Day wish to Diane, and some of the comments on the post are something to behold. If my most devout friends wrote about their prayers and wishes to the Virgin Mary, those writings would pale to some of those comments.
But that post got me thinking - unless she's truly evil or cynical, it really sucks to be Diane Ford. She has four kids - one's a completely hopeless addict, one at best is a former criminal who's said to be weird, the youngest went from being a loser nobody to a City Councillor all the way to Mayor before pissing it all away in a sea of booze and a desert of cocaine and haze of crack smoke, and the only "good" one learned his business skills in James Gardens. She must know that many see her as an enormous failure as a mother, and even if others are sympathetic, all of the kids' problems play out in public.
So this Mother's Day, her youngest is in rehab, her oldest shared the last known hit of crack that sent the youngest to rehab, the "good" one is trying to keep the youngest afloat while running the family business and watching his own political dreams go to hell, and the other one, well, he still lives at home past age 50. Hell of a Mother's Day.