Helpful Hints

She often said, "If you look in the mirror too long, you'll turn to a pillar of salt".
(As a teenager, I was quite insecure - and thus self conscious and always checking something in the mirror). I think she wanted me to be humble and authentic.

Regarding boys, she would say, "Look at his family". She believe you could tell a lot about how he treated his mother, what he learned from his dad, if he had many siblings, etc. She was right.

When I asked her where babies came from, she said, "When a mother and father love each other soooo much, God gives them children". (I was 14 and didn't have a clue, so I bought it).

She used to watch me from the front porch as I followed my brothers to school. I think I lopped along just like them. So, she told me, "Stand up straight so that your head touches the sky, and suck in your stomach". I still do that.

And when I was picked up for a date, she'd yell from the front porch, "Remember your body is the temple of the hold spirit". Nuff said.