My Mom: Closet Motown Queen

It's my fabulous mother's big 4.................2-9th birthday today, so in honor of her, I will post some of her 25 facts she wrote about herself (she read over my list, and did her own):


"I take serious naps.

I don’t set difficult goals.

I like silly movies.

Bread, butter, and a big salad is my favorite meal.

Wildest dream: have someone dry and style my hair every day.

Riding in the back seat makes me carsick.

Lifelong career fantasy: sing backup in a Motown group

(Along with Sound of Music, Dreamgirls is her favorite movie. The first time she saw it, her hallucinating expression made me think she had died and gone to heaven.)

My hero: my mom

I did comedy skits on the radio

I’m not a very 'deep' person.

One of my children weighed 10 lbs. 13 oz. at birth. I believe in epidurals.

Most embarrassing moment: on Password, the TV game show.
[due to nerves/being pregnant with me, she blatantly gave out the word. TWICE.]

My parents knew my husband 25 years before I did.

Moment I knew he [my dad] was “the one”: he held my hair back while I threw up. "

Haha! Love her.

As a mother, she is the most caring. giving and unconditionally loving person I've ever known, not to mention one of the funniest.

Here's her fulfilling one of her lifelong dreams of meeting a member of Earth, Wind and Fire backstage at their concert last year:



It's no wonder she loves Beyonce's "Single Ladies" song
("the 'call and response' is so powerful"),
and hopes she and Jay-Z stay together...


And likes the movie 'Roll Bounce'...

Happy Birthday Mom! Love you!