by Carole Wilson

Created on: August 21, 2007

I would definitely interview my mother who was suddenly killed in a tragic car accident just after my twelfth birthday. I know I could interview any famous person or historical figure, but I would choose my mother. She is the person that I admire the most. I would like to learn all about her and her life. I never got the chance to really know my mother as a person. I would love to have that chance to chat with her, to get the feel of her personality, to hear her laugh once more.

While I went through my teen and young adult years, I thought about my mother every day. I talked to her hoping that she could hear me. I told her how much I needed her here with me, especially when I had my own child. I reached a certain point in my thirties when I wanted to know all I could about my mother in her youth. But, I waited too long to talk to my grandmother or her closest sister about her. I enjoyed visiting my grandma in the convalescent hospital when my folks stopped off to see her months before she died. But, the time was short as they were rushed to get to their destination. She was 93 years old. My mother's sister died shortly thereafter. I had just waited too long to ask. I missed my chance to find out more about my mother.

Of course, interviewing my mother in person would be so much more special than secondhand stories about her. I would like to find out how my mother really felt. I know she told me she loved to be a housekeeper. She loved children. But, I want to know how she remained so calm raising six children. I want to know how she made ends meet. I have some of her recipes and a few letters that she wrote to a friend, but I just want more insight into how she thought. I want to know what her interests were beyond the knitting and sewing that she loved and that encompassed so much of her time. She told me once that her parents couldn't afford to send her to college, as they had done with her two older sisters. I would like to know what she would have majored in. I just need some special advice about raising children and being a wife. I need the advice that only my mother can give.

But, most of all, I would just love to spend one hour with my mother in an intimate interview. It would be priceless.

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