My first Mother's Day without a Mother

[jberryhill]

2. She inspired a lot of people

She was so charming that she usually wound up running anything she joined. We belonged to a swim club since, my goodness if you lived in the suburbs of the sixties, of course you joined a pool. It's not like anyone had one in their yard!

Not long after joining, she was elected to the board and put on the membership committee. In the course of reviewing membership procedures, she asked, "Why do we have a home visit with prospective members before having them visit the pool?"

"Well, you know, to make sure they are the right kind of people."

Long story short, that was the end of that. She made it clear either that was going to end, and if it didn't end, then our family was leaving, and taking every other family we could with us.

We stayed, she was elected president of the club, and we got a lot more members.