Creative people need love too

Creative people need love too

When I was in school all those eons ago, my mother told me to pay attention and get good grades. That’s what mothers say. It’s their job. As much as I hated hearing it when I was on the receiving end, I went on to repeat the mantra to my own kids (and oh so many more things I swore I would never say when I had kids of my own). One particularly sore subject was Algebra. Mom was a whiz at mathematics. I was a dismal failure at anything with number…