Top Five Reasons My Mom is AWESOME (Or Why the Valley Has Made Me a Horrible Daughter)

So let's put this in perspective. In the last six weeks I've been in London, Cannes, Israel, San Francisco and New York and in each city I've been hustling on one of my four jobs whether it's pimping my book, filming for Yahoo at the crack of dawn, blogging or writing very late columns for BusinessWeek. Weekends? What are those? I almost got pneumonia and am now in New York with a nasty cold. I've been slightly off the grid for a day and a half and now have a mountain of direct Twitters, Facebook messages, emails etc to plow through. Tomorrow, I get up at 6 a.m. to shoot at the Nasdaq for Yahoo, then another day of book press and back to SF for three book signing events/ parties and the big book launch on THURSDAY!

Not trying to be a martyr. It's all very exciting. But amid all of it I have utterly neglected to send my mother flowers for Mothers Day. So since the Web has sort of gotten me into this mess. (Ok, a stretch, it's really my fault, but I have to blame something.) I am counting on the web to get me out of it. Specifically, my blog.

Here are the top five reasons my mom deserves better:

1. She reads my blog. And doesn't care at all about the things I write about. She also read (most of?) my book, despite the constant barrage of F-bombs. (There's even one in the table of contents!) As a result she knows far more about Web 2.0 than any other mom in Memphis, Tn. She even knows what Twitter is and that's more than Kara Swisher can say for people she goes to weddings with.

2. She's wicked smart, but chose her family over career a few times. And that makes her a better person than me, clearly since I'm blogging a Mothers Day note. She gave up a pre-paid Ph.D. program in literature so my dad could take his dream job, and was a stay-at-home mom to five kids until I (the youngest) was in kindergarten. Then, in order to have both, she started teaching literature at the girls school I went to for 13 years. She got to fulfill her dreams while still having loads of bonding time with her youngest to and from school. She accepted she couldn't have it all, and then sort of found a way, while never resenting anyone. That's class, ladies and gentelmen.

3. She made me way cooler in high school because she was the most popular teacher. And let's face it, I kinda needed the help.

4. Despite being a southern woman she never plays the game. No passive-aggressiveness. You always know how she stands on everything (whether you want to or not.)

5. Even though she was an English teacher, she holds back from sending back blog posts marked up with red ink. I can only imagine how many times she reads my stuff gritting her teeth and saying "It's ok. Calm down, Carol. English is a liivinggg language...."

So happy Mothers Day to her and any other neglected moms reading this!

Comments

[Jenny Farrow]

I must agree w/ the fabulousness of Sarah's mom! Mrs. Lacy was an excellent teacher and everyone did in fact love her. Our graduating class was one of the best turned out from that school. Mrs. Lacy had a lot to do with it.

[sarah lacy]

jenny:

my mom who thinks commenting on a blog is "a bit much" for her was very appreciative of this! thanks for the compliment!! i agree of course!