Today is my mama’s 60th birthday, and since it’s not really polite to reveal a lady’s age, please don’t tell anyone I said that. 

My mama has been a good mama to me. She’s taught me a lot of things. She’s very logical and concrete in her thinking, and since I’m very random and un-concrete (or whatever the opposite of concrete is) in my thinking, we’ve been good for each other. I mean, we’ve kind of driven each other nuts before, but there was this glorious day when my sweet mama came to this amazing realization. We’ve been much better friends ever since. I remember her coming to me and saying something like this:

“Maggie, I think in a straight line and you think in a wiggle. Now, it’s not wrong to think in a wiggle, it just takes a lot more time to get from one place to another.” And she was right. It does take a lot more time to get from here to there, but oh, the fun we “wiggle-thinkers” have at getting things done!!! That is, we hope to get at least something done…in the middle of all our getting distracted.