If Anyone Has Earned The Pleasure Of Retirement, It's This Single Mother

We drove it to Utah to attend my mother's retirement party. My father left when I was 9, and luckily my mother started her job at the power company a year earlier.

She was a single mother. When I was a child, she worked two jobs: one collecting power payments and one cleaning houses. She had three children. Sometimes she came home late in the evening in …