So  annie61, you can consider your self BLESSED, some people never have a MOM, let alone a MOM and a BEST FRIEND rolled into one...and you can BET she is still watching over you day in and day out...until you all meet again...she will be your ANGEL on your sholder....I am sure of that.  

The person who inspires me the most is my Mother, who passed away just 3 years ago. It was said of her that she never gave up on anyone. As I look around me in life, I find that that cannot be said of many people. Not many at all. She was a simple woman of indefatiguable energy and high principle. When she became a friend, she became a friend for life.

She also taught me the power of laughter and of giving. It has not escaped your attention, I am sure, that researchers are just now catching up to the value of laughter as a medicine for our ills. Every day, whenever I laugh, I think of my Mom and thank her for teaching me this simple, powerful medicine. The second thing my Mom taught me was to buy bras that fit me. That simple pice of advice is now endorsed by scientists who have found that wearing tight bras for women and briefs for men is unhealthy and is actually is responsible fo rmany of the aches and pains we suffer from as we age. So, thank you, Mom.  All of your advice was simple and priceless.

Catherine is also my Irish Mom. It took her a lot of wisdom to  raise three daughters in grade school after Dad passed away. Mom is wise and loving and true to her faith and God. Love You, Bonnie and Jimmie

You sound like you have a wonderful Mother...God Bless her for all her caring and working with the children, God knows what a wonderful woman she is....She will be rewarded ten fold.

From Franks Wife Carol & From Frank she is a Terrific Mother In Law..

The Wise woman I know is my 95 yr old MOM, Catherine,  who raised 3 girls on her own, sent them to Catholic School (grammer and high school) and always put her kids first. Lived her Faith in God, taught that to her children and taught her girls to appreciate one another. We have a lot to Thank my MOM for...she is beautiful on the inside and the outside. I love my MOM.

Well, some people call me Eddie Haskell because I'm such a wise guy.  So I guess I'm the "wisest" person I've ever known.

The person who I find wise is about to celebrate her 102nd birthday.  She is positive and healthy, active and friendly.  She has more friends every year, with 125 at her 95th birthday, and then nearly 200 at her 100th!  Although she has healthy habits, she doesn't obsess over them.  I believe her attitude, positivity, kindness towards others and active social and charitable life are some of the most important keys to her beauty inside and out. 

Her name is Elsa Brehm Hoffmann.  For 2 years ABC searched America for the best centenarian role models, and she was one of the 5 chosen and interviewed on Barbara Walters' special last year entitled: How to Live to 150 - Can You Do It?  Although we can learn much from long-living peoples in places far away, I believe we truly need to give more attention to these Amercian role models who thrive in our modern society.  More primative cultures have their own unique challenges, but they also have more simple lives and simple choices.  We are bombarded with abundance of unhealthy food choices, modern conveniences, high-tech gadgets that take away from important in-person contact, etc., etc.  We need to also look at long-lived persons right here in our own backyard and how they handle the challenges we have right here. For heaven's sake, America has the most centenarians of anywhere by almost double (96,000 per US Census Bureau in 2008), yet we are so spread out that we are not considered one huge blue zone. Let's look right here and learn from these contemporary best role models.

Take a gander at Elsa on ElsasOwnBlueZone.com.  You will be delighted and inpsired by her.  Don't miss the photos and videos there.  If that piques your interest as I'm sure it will, get the book of the same name.  It explains all about the habits and philosophies of someone who brings joy to others and enjoys her long life fully every day.

 Okay but my wife has been dead almost 7 years as for wiser I don't know I've learned a lot about myself and science and pc.'s so tell me am I litle wiser or not .youth always think they know everything check back with me when you have visited loved ones with Alzheimer disease.

Bob Sr.