I See Parallels
The longer I live the more I admire my mother. I try to emulate her. Since I have up and moved far away from my family I see parallels. Not in everything, she married late and I married early. Her third child and only son was born with severe cerebral palsy and she was forty-five. All four of mine were healthy and whole before I was thirty. She was married to an over the road, long haul truck driver who was not around much to help. He did help when he was there. Anyway, after both girls moved to Texas and Dad retired, they came down to the Houston area, bought a house, Daddy worked the players gate at the Astrodome and he loved that. Unfortunately, while not freezing cold winters, Gulf Coast heat and humidity turned out to not be a great choice for folks with rampant arthritis, Mom, and emphysema, Dad, they decided to head for the higher and drier west. After a year of checking out towns and nursing homes, they chose Lordsburg, New Mexico, as far wes...