The Eight Year Itch
On March 14, 2004 I got off a greyhound bus in Dallas Texas with 95% of everything in the world I owned. I was determined to start over and make shit work once and for all.
On March 14, 2012 I will get on a US Airways Plane with the clothes on my back and little else, going back to the city of my birth, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
I am not coming back alone.
I am bringing my Mother to Texas.
Twenty years after she told me she was leaving Pittsburgh the first time to move to Maryland, we are Driving a UHaul truck out of Pittsburgh and not looking back.
She returned, but that was because her mother was still there.
Grandma is gone now. My mother is finished with Pittsburgh.
Her oldest son and her youngest grandchild are here.
It won’t be easy, it won’t be boring. It is time for me to do my diligence as the oldest child as my mother strolls gracefully into the dawn of her twilight. She is in good health, I look forward to helping her add back the years working two full time jobs took away from her.
The older I get, the more I realize my mother and me are similar. We’ve loved, laughed, Bickered, but we have always ridden for each other.
My mother had due cause to write my sorry ass off more than once, but she’s always kept it 100 with me. Death, abandonment, racism, illness, heartbreak, marriage, tribulation, parenting, infidelity, historic success and unfathomable failure have woven their way through our relationship and here we are.
There is almost a guarantee that I will wish this day had never come.
I will expect at least ONE of you to give me a stern talking to when I part my lips to complain.
Good luck on your journey
Love this very honest, very loving post! I pray you all are doing well!