Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.