May 9, 2021
6 min read
My Mother Peggy
Story telling, fashion, home ownership, loss, and misunderstanding
My mother Peggy was one of the older siblings in a large, Irish Catholic family in a lower-middle-class New Jersey suburb of New York City. In her day, it was fashionable for young women to be curvy with full breasts. My mother’s sisters, Frances and Marie, were like that. I have the curvy. My mother was large-boned, angular…
