Hello, friends, it's me, Mike Roe, and what we have here is a very special episode of the way I heard it, a bonus episode, just in time for Mother's Day.

Starring? Of course, my mother. Chuck is not with us for this particular conversation because it took place back in Baltimore a couple of weeks ago.

I was back there on business.

And if you follow me on Facebook, you know my mom has been dealing with some health issues

here in the beginning of the year.

She's through it all now, thank God, and was just starting to feel like her normal self again

when this guy, Tom, who runs marketing over at Erickson's Senior Living,

invited her to speak at their annual event, which they were having in Baltimore.

You know, administrators come from all over from these different facilities.

And he invited my mom to speak to the group.

And then he heard I was in town. And he said, hey, you know, if you want to join your mom, that'd be fun. And I said, well, if you record it so I can use it on my podcast, that'd be great. And he said, sure. The truth is, I'd have done it anyway, but they had cameras, so they set them up. And they recorded the whole thing. And I'm so glad they did because this is a very

funny conversation. I'm going to post the whole thing on YouTube as well. But we also have the podcast for you today because Mother's Day is right around the corner and because my mom, my mom's a delight. You know, this is one of the best crowds I've been in front of in years. And for a while there, I, you know, I just kind of

thought it was me because I'm, you know, sort of famous and whatnot. But it's, it's not. It's

my mother. They love my mother. She's become a, a legend of sorts, not just at Oakrest, but

throughout Erickson. And I think in senior living communities all over the place, her book, Oh No, Not the Home is popping up all over the place in these communities, which I just, which I love to see.

Anyway, I thought it would be a fun Mother's Day event of sorts because it felt like an event I've been wanting to do a live podcast since the first episode. How appropriate that I

finally got a shot to do it. With me, Mother, she is her normal, delightful self. And I will prove

that to you on this, our bonus Mother's Day episode, starring the one and only. Peggy Roe right after this.

Peggy Roe is an American giant, and I'm not just saying that because it's Mother's Day,

and she's listening to this. I'm saying it because Peggy Roe quit her teaching career and then

delayed her writing career to raise three boys.

And those boys were a handful.

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