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Notes from Mom

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Vicki isn't available for comment today so Mom is the guest blogger.

To get a glimpse of how Vicki became Vicki, I will admit it's not easy to be my parent or my sibling or my spouse and especially not my child. When Vicki was a little girl, she threw a grand mal temper tantrum at the mall, right at the top of the main escalator. I was mortified but Vicki laid on the floor kicking and screaming about wanting to get a toy, wanting to get a cookie and whatever she could think of to forestall leaving. I looked around and there were people staring but most were other mothers, relieved it wasn't their child on the floor. So I decided to throw my dignity to the wind and I laid down right next to Vicki and started kicking and screaming myself - I had company coming for dinner, I needed to go grocery shopping, I had to clean the house!! Vicki stood up, and standing akimbo, she yelled, "Get up Mommy, you're embarrassing me!!" I stood up, took her hand and we quietly left the mall as those other mothers quietly gave me a round of applause. That was the last time Vicki ever threw a temper tantrum in public.

From then on Vicki was a very good child, maybe in fear of what her mother would do in public if she misbehaved. However, she also became fearless to try things others would be terrified to try, most notably, showing her work and in doing so, exposing her soul to the scrutiny of others. I wouldn't be embarrassed to lay on the floor of the mall in front of "everybody", (as a matter of fact, I think it's pretty funny as does Vicki, on hindsight) but Vicki's fearlessness and tenacity and desire to keep developing her voice is something I admire greatly.

I lay no claim to Vicki's talent - only to being a proud mom and a kindred free spirit.

-- MOM

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