MOM

Photographer Unknown

LEGACY

What my mother left me

was not dancing shoes

or diamond rings

or bad luck with men.

It was the way she stood

so straight

barely reaching my shoulder

but tall

on days when life

bends most people low

and that quickstep of hers

forward always

to music only she could imagine.

(from my book: Saturday Nights at the Crystal Ball)

Happy Mother's Day, Mom, wherever you are...I miss you.

And thanks, Laurie and David, for giving me the joys of being

mom--and grandma to all those short people. I love you...