One Mother of a Blog Hop

This is part of a group post about mothers (or grandmas/mother-figures/fictional mothers) and their support of and/or influence on our writing. If you'd like to do one of your own, write it up & link at the Omnific blog on Thursday, May 9, or simply visit the blog that day to read more entries.


In tribute to my amazing mum on this upcoming Mother's Day, I'm giving her the George Bailey treatment and reflecting upon how things might be very different in my writerly life if she wasn't exactly who she is:

• Without her indulging me and buying cat food & flea collars for Sugars, the stray cat who frequented our backyard and whom I considered a pet, I would never have been inspired to write Alley Cat, which won me a poetry award in the 5th grade and gave me my first inkling that I might be okay at this writing thing.  

• Without her doing all the work around the house so my siblings and I could focus on our studies, I might never have become comfortable spending hours and hours doing quasi-intellectual things while remaining happily oblivious to all the work around the house that needs doing.

• Without her wonderful laugh and strong faith, I may never have learned to not take this life too seriously, and if I took this life seriously at all, I never would've let myself shirk other duties to write the Harry Potter fanfiction that made me know I couldn't stop writing.

• Without her genuine conviction that her children are the most marvelous creatures to ever inhabit this Earth, I might not've been instilled with enough confidence to say yes to this publishing thing.

This list could go on and on, but I'll end on this note...

• Without her reaction to the sexy scenes in Three Daves, I may never have come up with a topic for my first ever blog post, and therefore, I may never have started blogging...and therefore, I may never have met you.

Thanks, Mom, for being fabulous you!

P.S. On Monday, Janie Junebug posted her review of Divine Temptation. I'm still smiling. :) (see?)