Happy mothers day!
I grew up thinking that my mother knew it all. She even knew when I pretended to take a bath while I sat on the washing machine reading a book. She knew I would step in mud with my brand-new white shoes. I hid them in my closet the second I came home, only to find her standing right there as soon as I closed the door. She told me I'd have to wear my winter boots all summer long! We could not get anything past her, and I thought I would one day officially know everything, just like she did. When I was 19 years old, I moved to Australia, hitchhiked through the Canadian Rockies and then Africa and Central America. Malaria almost sent me to my grave in Zimbabwe back in the pre-Internet era... Now that I hav...