Portrait of a Woman

Mom was a school teacher with five boys and a husband when she decided to go back to school and get her Masters in counseling while still a full-time public school teacher in the “tough” Southside of Chicago. Mom still did her “mom and wifely duties” (this was the more chauvinistic 1970s) like by making dinner every day of the week. I remember mom pulling the card table and chair from the basement and placing it in the living room as her “office”. Mom sat at that card table for nearly three years most evenings typing her papers on her Smith Corona Typewriter after attending classes Saturday not online but at an actual brick and mortar school. I still boast with pride and pump my chest out as I remember her mom in her graduation robe.