Dotsie et al,

We talked a lot about our mothers and some of the stories we told are in our book. I would never have made it to college w/o my mother's continual push. She wasn't a home-maker - as she put it, her jello always sat down, but our house was reasonably clean. My mom spent her time teaching my brother and I the names of all the Presidents (1st, middle, and last), history (especially anything about Lincoln), the states and their capitols, poetry that she loved (especially Carl Sandburg's) and words (both my brother & I scored very high on that part of the SATs. She was a wonderful woman and I was so sad that she died early and my girls didn't really get to know her.

Judy