Letters: The many ways and whys of motherhood
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2008
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Eithna Russell, my 84-years-young mother, is amazing. She has been blessed with excellent health and a huge heart. She dances four nights a week. She raised six children after our father died in 1964; put us all through Catholic school; worked 10 hours a day as a waitress; lost one child to mental illness and buried another from cancer; helped raise a granddaughter; and had cancer herself.
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Never once in my entire life have I heard her utter the words "poor me," "what about me," or "it's not fair." Talk about a role model. Lee Kleinbart Jenkintown When I was coming home from my service in the European Theater of Operations after World War II, I wanted to return to Temple University. I was due back in February 1946, when the school term would have started. I would not have been able to register in time. My immigrant mother, Masha ...
