Humorous and entertsing. By books end I had fallen heavily for both Peggy and her mother. Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs was an entertaining but somewhat cringworthy program about the less than ideal jobs some people work. In fact, he provides, not one but two foreward to this book written by his mother. Episodes of a life, a mother and daughter that couldn't be further apart in expectations. Her mom, prim and proper, house immaculate, dinners wonderfully prepared, dressed to the T. Until she becomes an Orioles fan, baseball now her main focus during the season, shouting at television umpires, radio on during usually quiet meals,. The Orioles turn on s switch that will last the rest of her life. Peggy, horse crazy, smelling often of hay snd manure, not an ideal daughter. Yet, somehow these two disparate personalities come together and learn to embrace each other's passions.

Short portraits of their lives through the years, but does give the reader a good inside look at their personslities, and lives together. Just what I needed right now, a book that I enjoyed immensely. ( )