How sad. I have some ugly, but treasured, objects made by my children. Just last week, I was trying to glue 2 legs back onto a lopsided clay turtle made by a grandchild. Your mother missed out on a valuable connection between parent and child, when the parent values every effort to please. Forgive her. She was concerned with the opinions of others, perhaps lacking self-esteem and needing their approval, just as you needed hers.
The Psychic Dimension, Part II (558 pages) is a collection of 36 sci-fi/paranormal stories and the new work is the companion book to Jay Dubya's The Psychic Dimension.
This was no mere illusion. Colin Chase Rand, pulled through a magical portal, landed in 1935 where the dust bowl and the Great Depression was destroying lives, and a serial killer was in their midst
Connie