Mother Knows
24 Tales of Motherhood
Foreword
Susan and I tend to converse with our faces rather than our voices. We're sisters. And we've worked side by side since February 8, 1982, and have made a point of having at least a little hole in the wall -- literally -- between us so we could communicate this way.
Now we have a wavy glass divider between our two desks, just up to the tops of our noses, so we have complete privacy and focus until we both look up -- or until one of us snorts, usually Susan. (Hahahahah! That's what you get for making me write this!)
In 1957, our parents decided to switch paths -- moving from city life to farming -- and, being romantics, conceived Susan, a new life in celebration of a new life. I became a serious farm girl, and Susan became a happily voracious reader by the time she was three. When she was ten, the eye doctor delivered the frightful news that Susan would go blind within a couple of years. Mom, also an u ... read full excerpt from Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood ebook
