Thursday, April 28th, 2022 10:36:00

Let’s Learn to Laugh and Regain our Sense of Humor

Next weekend is Mother’s Day, which of course reminds me of my mother, Jackie Battley Gingrich, who died in 2013. So forgive me if I spend the next two weeks writing about her — and why her views still matter to me. She was a polio survivor, finished college in three years (the first in her family to do so); she was a math major at Auburn University at a time when few women were studying mathematics; and she was strong-willed and funny.