Description A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book About my grandmother, written by my mother.
About the Author Author - Peggy Rowe After a brief teaching career, Peggy Rowe was a stay-at-home mom to three sons.
Sometimes it takes a little distance to appreciate the people we love.
Life became a series of compromises--Thelma tolerating a Daughter who pitched manure and galloped the countryside, while Peggy learned to tolerate the whacky Orioles fan who threw her underwear at the television, shouted insults at umpires, and lived by the orange-and-black schedule taped to the refrigerator door.
When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised and embarrassed than Peggy.
Good luck.
They clashed from the beginning--Peggy, the Horse-Crazy tomboy, and Thelma, the genteel-yet-still-controlling mother, committed to raising two refined, ladylike daughters.
Today, Thelma would be described as an alpha personality, but while growing up, her Daughter Peggy saw her as a dictator--albeit a benevolent, loving one.
She\'s the person taking charge--the one who knows instinctively how things should be.
But Thelma could be your mother--there\'s a Thelma in everyone\'s life.
Peggy Rowe\'s story of growing up as the Daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor.
Just to be clear.--Mike A love letter to mothers everywhere, About My Mother will make you laugh and cry--and see yourself in its reflection.
And my mother.
It\'s About my grandmother.
It isn\'t.
Nor does it mean my mother\'s book is About her son.
I haven\'t.
But it doesn\'t mean I\'ve written a book About my mother.
True, I did write the foreword.
In that sense, it\'s really a book About "mothers." ...
It is not, however, a book written by me.
In fact, About My Mother is as much About my mother as it is About my grandmother.
That\'s not to say it\'s not About my mother--it is.
Description A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book About my grandmother, written by my mother
