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1) About My Mother: True Stores of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: A Memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That's not to say it's not about my mother—it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, it's really a book about "mothers."
...It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesn't...
...It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesn't...
2) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rowe has been writing all of her adult life- even through years of constant rejection from publishing houses. Between her tenacity and the encouragement of her family, her breakthrough finally came-- at the age of eighty! Here she shares her journey of attending myriad writers' conferences and honing her ability to see humor in everyday situations. Along the way Rowe delivers a hilarious array of stories that reflect her addiction to making people...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Since the day they said, "I do," Peggy's previous "doting" lifestyle met with her husband John's minimalist ways and became the backdrop for years of adventure and a quirky sense of humor because of their differences. From thoughts of wearing headlamps in the house to save energy, to squeezing out the last drop of toothpaste with a workbench vise, Peggy learned to pick her battles and celebrate the hilarity in each situation. Once their boys were...