TBT: Today my brother Marc and I will spend some time visiting our Mom and cleaning up a bit as today marks her 95th birthday and what we both thought was a decade. Okay forget both of thinking 2014 as we discovered after removing the rain-splattered mud from my parents's joint headstone. Fortunately, I had a water bottle in the car and wipees in my travel backback.
Mom was the epitome of a homemaker having received her masters in Home Economics and Child Development. I interrupted her doctorate plan with my arrival and gave her the title of Mom instead of Ph.D.
Since she was such a good cook, our father rarely gave her a day off from being in the kitchen until we 3 kids had moved on. She loved baking and always shared her culinary endeavors at dinner parties/ with friends.
Bridge was her constant, a master in duplicate bridge and a director at the Little Rock Bridge house. We called it her home away from home. She had more than one bridge group. It was a cruel joke that her loss of sight prevented her from continuing playing.
In later years she also enjoyed swimming laps at the Y/ the senior center in North Little Rock and participating in the senior program of LifeQuest.
As a German Jew she lived through the Holocaust and then the Civil Rights years in Arkansas. After all she witnessed she warned us about any religious right. Today's news would have proven her feelings once again...
May her memory always be for a blessing...
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