The Freedman Family, c1965 - The Author (far right) with her mom, dad, brothers & pet miniature french poodle
It is fitting that I am starting my first blog on Mother's Day Weekend... the inspiration suddenly came to me as I was driving home from a client. In the business of helping others market themselves, I suddenly realized I had let my own PR efforts fall by the wayside and knew instinctively I had to do something about that. I have long thought about starting a blog, but the question always arose, where do I begin? And what do I write about? I don't want my blog to be all business-like. I have a website and a newsletter to do that. Yet, I don't want to get too personal, lest I let down my professional guard. So I hope to combine the best of both worlds here in my blog as they both integrate with one another to create the person that I am, and continue to evolve to be. It fits that my first blog should be a tribute to my mother, with whom it all started.
It was my mother who inspired so much of my creativity from such a young age. My mother created a safe and loving home for my father, my two older brothers and me. We had a comfortable lifestyle in the suburbs of Long Island with the close proximity of New York City just a train ride away. Mother taught me how to bake cookies, entertain, shop, paint, cross-stitch and do other forms of needlepoint. She afforded me lessons in: art, ballet, clarinet, piano, horse-back riding and she created the best birthday parties ever! She had a sense of style and grace that friends and family say I carry with me to this day. More importantly, she had integrity, intelligence, perception and a warm heart that lives within each of the lives she touched and will forever live within me.
Mother was only with us for a very short time. She was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was twelve years old and died three years later - shortly before my Sweet Sixteen. The year was 1972. And even though that was over thirty years ago and I have since become a mother myself, I continue to be grateful for the foundation she laid for myself and my brothers, the example she set for me to follow in my own parenting, and her passion for the Arts that she so generously shared.
Here's to you Mom, and to all the Mother's of the World, who may not always get the Recognition and the Appreciation that they so deserve.
great works.
Posted by: mullerjeanfrancois | 01/31/2010 at 09:50 PM
Dear Lisa,
What a beautiful tribute and celebration of your mother's life. It is nice to read how in such a short time on earth, she was able to nurture all the good values in life and pass them on to her children.
Posted by: Enzie Shahmiri | 02/04/2010 at 11:43 AM
Beautiful tribute that speaks forever.
Posted by: Susan Balin | 05/10/2020 at 08:41 AM
Thank-you, Susan. Happy Mother's Day to you as well <3
Posted by: The Art Marketer | 05/10/2020 at 09:05 AM