Momma

Mother's Day is coming and it has me thinking about my Mom. I watch Mad Men and my favorite character is Peggy Olsen, because she's a woman in the 60's making it in a male driven industry. That takes me back to my childhood memories. I remember taking the elevator up at the Sears Tower and ending up in my Mom's office, an executive suite. Even in the 80's she was an oddity. Not to mention the fact that she had been at Sears in a minimum of a supervisory position since the late 60's. Now she was an executive and based on the way people treated me I knew she was important. It let me know I could be important. Walter Payton did a promotion with Sears my Mom oversaw, so when she came to career day at my school she came with Walter Payton autographs for my entire class. I will never forget the limo picking us up to take us to see the 1986 championship bears play. My Mom was a winner and she still is. Where did she get this wow factor, my grandmother. My grandmother who owned acres of land and built a church in the basement of her home. My grandmother who walked the streets of the west side of Chicago talking to gang members and getting them out of street life. Two amazing women. My Mom is my Hero and my Grandmother was her's. This Mother's Day I pray I become the woman my son needs to see to know he can do whatever he wants.