My mother would have been 94 today. I cannot believe that she has been gone for 7 years.
I am glad that she has not seen the devastation that the oil spill is wreaking. She would have been both angry and sad.
My mother was a very bright, sensitive woman with an eighth-grade education. I remember her dilemma when she applied for her first job outside the home after my father died unexpectedly at 50. The ad stipulated that only high school graduates need apply. I know how stressful it was for her to not tell the truth on the application. Of course, she was hired and became a valued employee.
If she had been born a generation later, she would not only have finished high school but would have become the first college graduate in her family. Instead her children became the first ones.
On most weekends she and I would have an hour-long phone conversations or longer. I still miss them.
I still miss her.
I Don't Feel Older
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