is a superheroine! I’m so proud of her!! She told me today that she just started a new project – possibly the first time she’s ever done something like this, at least in a really long time. She’s been a mental health nurse for as long as I can remember and has worked with folks with severe disabilities for around 20 years or so. She told me today that she, along with a pharamcy rep she’s good friend with, have enlisted the aid of several non-profit agencies and the county board of elections to help educate her clients, register them to vote, and help them vote!!!!

WOW! Never would I ever have thought my mom would get involved as such a changemaker. You have to understand – my mom came up really poor, finished high school and went to nursing school. She was going to join the army but got pregnant and couldn’t (they didn’t take unwed mothers back then). She met Larry, got married, and spent the next 30 years raising kids. My parents’ marriage also spiraled downward until she moved out a couple of years ago. She’s not divorcing Larry, but she does have her own space and is starting to have some fun having her own life.

So for her to do something like this is so fabulous and so enormous that I don’t have any really good words to share it other than – yipppeeee! My mom is a changemaker!