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Barbara Anderson

How do you continue to pay the rent on your memory?

This is the first May 10 without my mom and there isn't a single ad, or steamed marketing heart that doesn't remind me of her, her cool spark and the thousand homemade recipes to always cure me.
How do you continue to pay the rent on your memory?
By Barbara Anderson

My mother used to do stand up, drying her hands with her apron and leaning on the bronze railing of the wood stove, where she dried the dishes and heated the eternal kettle of the always-ready mate.

She had the ability to tell you in fifty different ways (one more bizarre than the other) the anecdote of how she won the Conscript Ball Beauty Pageant when her beau (ahem...my dad) bought all the raffle numbers for her crown.

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