(..) She was really good at dispensing life lessons, that always seemed to circle back to everything being my fault. But then, on the day of the talent show, my mother had a surprise for me. She had bought me the jacket. Even though she didn't know how to say it, I knew this meant that she loved me. (..)

(..) You like that? You never did care for my comedy. Here's a story. When I was a teenager, I performed a comedy routine for my high school talent show. There was this cool jacket that I wanted to wear because it would make me look like Albert Brooks. For months, I saved up for this jacket, (..)