Sylvia Some More

Sylvia, who has to be mom's most faithful friend, continues to write about mom and help me out on this blog with her stories and encouragement. Here's her latest:

Jake, the photographs you've been posting are wonderful.

I go to the blog daily, and am extremely moved by all of it.

I never drove with Linge on the highway. But when I visited her and drove myself, I found the North Carolina interstate completely terrifying. I cannot imagine how many near misses she must have had driving 35 mph when it felt to me as if everyone was driving at least 80.

When we lived in New York, she visited a friend at Wayne State in Ohio. She found a ride by responding to a ride share posting in the student union at Columbia. The driver turned out to be a crazy person. She said that as they drove, he kept slinking lower in his seat and mumbling things that she found frightening. They pulled off at a rest stop in Pennsylvania, and she went into the cafe which was nearly deserted. She started to cry. She approached a seemingly nice truck driver, tearfully explained her predicament, and asked if she could ride with him. He thought about it, and replied that she would probably be safer with the crazy guy. So she went back to the car, and told the driver in no uncertain terms that she was going to drive. The car was a stick shift, and she didn't know how to drive a stick shift. But she drove the rest of the way to Ohio, apparently in first gear, and when the driver complained she just told him to be quiet.

Keep up the great work.