Celebrate Mom
Kevin Fream
America's Cyberist Helping Financial & Professional Services Avoid Loss, Improve Business, and Eliminate Doubt
T - Minus 239 Days
Once or twice a year, mom would drive us from Oklahoma to New York and I was always fascinated by the picture of the pretty blonde woman that was my grand mother that apparently died young.
It wasn't until many years later that I learned my mom never finished high school and ran away from home at 16. Maybe it was stuff she learned from her dad, but she got into manufacturing running machines to create all kinds of various equipment parts - eventually rising through the ranks at various companies to become a purchasing agent.
I never knew why my parents divorced and always assumed it was because I didn't have all my fingers and didn't look like other kids.
As a single mother, I always had plenty to eat and wanted for very little. She taught me by example an extremely hard work ethic, encouraged me to do well in school, and to be accepting of everyone.
Mom smoked as a teenager until quitting in her 40's. Twenty years later she developed COPD and died suddenly after getting too winded one morning.
Like my Dad, I didn't get to say goodbye to Mom either.
Daily mission:?Celebrate your mom and tell your favorite memory.
For more thought leadership, follow?Kevin Fream .