A Late Mother's Day

Judi Lynn

May 27

Our daughter's a nurse in Indianapolis. Between her schedule and ours, it gets tricky to get together, but she came up to visit on Thursday, spent the night, and then left for home after lunch on Friday. And she brought my Mother's Day present. She spent too much money on it, but it was so sweet.

Back when I first found my agent, I was writing urban fantasy under Judith Post. Two of my novels were about the Norse god Tyr and the Greek goddess Diana. Most people who love Norse myths focus on Thor or Odin, but Tyr was an interesting god, too, the god of war, justice, and law. When the gods wanted to chain the demonic wolf Fenrir, someone had to keep him busy so the deed could be done. Tyr offered him his right hand to chew off while the others bound him.

For Mother's Day, our daughter bought a metal statue of Tyr and Fenrir with Tyr's right hand in the wolf's mouth. She found it at a specialty shop and it made her think of me and my two books. It's detailed and heavy. Pretty awesome. I'm not sure every mother would appreciate it the way I do, but I love it. Brought back lots of fond memories of early books I wrote.