Blind As a Bat

Blind as a bat they used to say as she rode her bike this way and that. I did Love her thick coke bottle glasses and the way she hunched her back when she Incited to drive down a one lane street with her head up and her eyes fixed. No one could have guessed that she was really biking it by memory, as they Drove by her, they would honk and say " get out of the street" .... A lady with very little money, five children and a knapsack full of apples for Snacks. She would drive to school at recess and dole out the fruit to her kids. Annabelle Kor was her name and she was my mother, this I say with pride. Born a survivor, who had survived the Jewish camps , she knew how to live free Answer to none but God, she would tell us as they sent her strange looks Truth be told I wouldn't have wanted any other mother, she was my hero... August 11 2022