I agree, and I only see it fully now that she is gone. At times my mother ran a structured household, but then she "lapsed" into a reaI person who said precisely what she thought. While we're in a church mode, she was "fired" from teaching sunday school once she started showing her pregnancy. Like these 7th graders would be corrupted by looking at my blossoming mother and thinking about what she did to get that way.

We were the beneficiaries of how pissed she was

I miss that voice. martha