I Am Nothing Like My Mother

About the Book

These verses portray every woman at various stages of life. They are intended to amuse and to bring subconscious thoughts and attitudes to a place where we can all acknowledge them and have a hearty laugh. Through these pages we are able to consider worrisome things like “Her Last Chance for Happiness,” the inconsequentiality of “The Crumbs Inside the Silver Drawer,” the universal anxiety in “Moving the Fridge,” the caricature of “The Free Thinker,” and the absurdity of believing even for a second that we are “Nothing Like (Our) Mothers.”

About the Author

After moving to western N.Y. from her native New York City Barbara Wager spent 30 years in various teaching and administrative positions in the Rochester School system. In l985, upon the recommendation of the school’s staff, she became the principal of School No. 12. In 1995, Barbara Wager retired from the Rochester System and became headmaster of the Boston Renaissance Charter School for the newly emerging Edison Project while at the same time pioneering the first tier of Massachusetts’ charter schools. Now retired in Rochester, Barbara describes her life as blissfully uneventful as she engages in many pastimes not least of which are snow-shoveling and gardening.