Don't sue me bro!I didn't think I'd get a picture of Mom on my blog for mother's day. Thought I'd probably missed it by a minute. Anyway there's a lot I could say about mom. Like how she announced her pregnancy with either Kathy or Nancy. At the dinner table, on a Sunday I think. She said, "I've got good news for everybody!" She meant it too.
Like how she used to sew dresses for the girls for school and dashikis for me. I was the only white boy at Pompano Beach Senior High who wore dashikis. I think she found the pattern easy. Good thing I liked to be different. How she put dinner on the table every night is beyond my comprehension. I remember the mother/daughter dresses she and Gerri wore to the Statue of Liberty. And how she cried, "Poor little man" at grandpa's funeral. She loved him, I sometimes think, more than his son did.
Miss you mom. Oh, by the way, don't get any smart ideas, Donald. I just used this picture cause it was easy to find. I AM THE ONE WHO PUT THE GRAY IN MOM'S HAIR.
2 comments:
bob, what a nice picture of your mom. She was a mother figure to me, too ,you know-my house was a bit insane sometimes. Donald looks a bit like you in that pic-handsome devil, aint he?
I cant remember your wearing daishikis in hs, of course that last year was a bit fuzzy. What i DO remember is that group of jocks joking about our bellbottoms-right before one of them grabbed your pantcuffs and upended you on the sidewalk. Good times, huh?
Anyway, happy mothers day, Mrs S. I will never forget her, either.
And Miss Geneva was a lifesaver to me too. She made me breakfast and made me call home that night I ran out of the house calling my father a "big fat f*ck."
I'll never forgive God for giving Donald the blue eyes instead of me.
Then there was the biology teacher who sent me to the dean's office for not wearing socks one day. She also gave me an F for not agreeing with her views on abortion.
Jerry, I don't know if you noticed, but I hated high school.
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