TA: Coherence Practice

My mother has a unique blend being very devoted to her children and still remaining fiercely independent. When I was a freshman in high school, I was too young to drive, and I lived too far from my most of my friends to be able to visit them on foot. I realized that I was going to need something to occupy my time during the summer, so I bought a skateboard. Occasionally, I would ride my bike into town to the local skate park and skate for hours on end. I didn’t really seem to fit in with the other skaters who constantly smoked and had new tattoos every other week, but I still loved to skate. I’m still not sure how they afforded tattoos at that age. The bike ride was a little further than I cared to go and it wasn’t on a very safe road, so every now and then my mom would help me out by volunteering to drive me to the skate park. The great thing about this was not that she would drive me, but that she would sit there while I skated and quilt. She loves to quilt. I was not ashamed to admit that I was the only kid at the skate park whose mom was not just at the park, but was quilting. My mother has always been very good at retaining her independence while still involving herself in the lives of her children.