Week Ten

Conduct a 30-60 minute interview. You can link me to the full audio or video file or write a summary of the Interview highlighting events that will shape your digital story

Interview with my mother

I asked my mother a combination of two different questions suggested. The first question I asked was, “describe a vivid or important memory from any time in your adult years.” I followed up with the question, “In looking back on your life, you may be able to identify particular “turning points” – episodes through which you experienced an important change in your life.” She started the immediate thought wheels rolling. She came up with several different options but in the end she had managed to rope all the ideas into one story. She originally started with the birth of me as a big turning point in her life, however my birth was both easy to discuss and complicated. When I was five my father, finally told my mother that he was in love with someone else and wanted a divorce, therefore creating another huge turning point in her life. She was worried about me, if she had enough in her to make me have a successful life, or if she should consider sending me to live with my father.  My father and step-mother challenged my mother’s confidence for several years and made her wobble her decisions on my life. Many of my mother’s friends began to notice her lack of self confidence and stepped in to help her. They helped her realize that she had family, friends, and faith, all on her side backing her up. She became a strong woman and knew the last thing she ever wanted to do was to get rid of me. She had waited for quite a while to have me and would fight with everything she had to keep me. Her friends and family have continued to support her throughout her life and now also help to support me. My story is about my mother’s strength as a person and how wonderful of a mother she has been even though we have had our challenges.