Mother's Day Reflecting
Mom died ten years ago this summer but two personality traits I learned from her seem to be with me every day. 1) I'm a story teller and, like her, I repeat stories a lot. 2) Being over 50 is no excuse to stop learning. She took art lessons in her 50s and 70s; I started guitar lessons last year. Now that I'm writing this, I remember more similarities. She loved to travel and loved to track hurricanes. Her death was partly related to a post-hurricane evacuation to another part of her state. Today I am watching the weather channel reports of this year's first named tropical storm. You can tell where I learned some of that. My curiosity about people and my sense of humor are also similar to those characteristics of Mom’s personality. My mother didn’t always approve of the things I did, especially of the multiple marriages and divorces, but she always loved me and accepted me. I think she would like a lot about my life right now and I wish she was still here to have...