: About Me

My mother has spent a lifetime doing for others. As a girl, she kept her parent's house clean and her brother's clothes ironed. As a young wife, she worked so my father could graduate seminary. As a young mother, she wasn't allowed to discipline us in church without exacting the wrath of the older ladies who saw us as their pastor's "angelic" children. We teased mom when she would place hands on her hips, demanding of our friends and us, "Who walked in the living room?" It was the late 70s. We had shag carpet she daily vacuumed and raked. The piano was there, in the living room, and to pra...