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Tayari's Blog: Happy Day, Valentine

Posted by TayariJones on February 14, 2007 07:47 AM
Filed under Travels & Rambles

Happy Valentine's Day, folks. I was doing my morning pages and I remembered a little something from my girlhood. When I was little my mother helped me make a mailbox for Valentines. I took it to school and the whole class used it and I felt so proud.

My mother, Barbara Ann, was my first role model of creativity. She's not a person that you would think of as all that creative at first glance. Her degree is in Economics and she is a Business School Dean. Never the less, she is one of the most creative people I know. She and my brother did all sorts of arts and crafts in the 70s: string art, macrame, hooking rugs etc. She can do everything from landscaping to cake decoration.

When I was about eight, I wrote a book called A Trip To Mars. I stapled it together and found it to be quite nice. My mother took it to her job and had it laminated. To me, this was the highest form of archival presentation. Years later, when I in high school, I wrote a short story called "The Pursuit of Michael Thomas." It was inspired by my crush on a bass drummer in the marching band. My story is a revenge tale, of sorts. My mother went to her office on a Sunday and typed it up for me. (She insisted that I change the names so the people would not be so recognizable.) I have to say that I appreciated the typing, but it's not until now that I understand what it meant for her to go into the office on a Sunday. (A Sunday? No way. I do not even think about the office after Friday, 12pm.)

So, the whole point of this is to say HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY WITH LOVE to my mother, Barbara Ann.

February 14, 2007 12:58 PM