Once upon a time many, many, many years ago, a tiny baby was born. She had naturally curly hair and was the most beautiful child in the world, or at least her mother always said so. The daughter was nurtured and encouraged and cherished. She grew up to be a semi-normal kid, but had secret ambitions of becoming Golda Meir. As time wore on, she graduated from high school and then continued on to college to be a librarian instead of the Prime Minister of Israel. Through these tumultuous years of self-actualization, the mother stood by her daughter during the good times and the bad times. And there were many bad times. During this time the daughter became a feminist and caused all sorts of turbulence in the family. She decided she would not be like her mother and slave over a hot stove, work 40 hours a week, do the laundry, do the gardening, do the cleaning, and after all of that, still get her husband a dish of ice cream while they watched TV together. As the years passed by, the daughter’s radical feminist views became less radical. She began to see her mother in a different light. The mother was kind to everyone. She went the extra mile when someone was hurt or down. She made her children and grandchildren feel very, very important. She was unselfish and put the feelings of others first. She was fun, she was smart, and she was adventurous. When the daughter got to be in the middle years, she finally realized that, yes, Golda Meir was someone to be admired, but if she really wanted to be an exceptional woman, she would have to grow up to be just like her mother. Sunday is Mother’s Day. Cherish her. Check out this new book for a heart-warming story, "A Good Yarn" by Debbie Macomber. Elise Beaumont, a retired librarian, joins one of Lydia Hoffman’s popular knitting classes. Since losing her life savings, Elise has been living with her daughter, Aurora — the only positive legacy from her brief marriage to professional gambler Marvin Beaumont. Now she learns that her one-time husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of how Elise feels about him. Bethanne Hamlin, like Elise, is facing the fallout from a divorce. But her husband, Grant, left her for another woman — not a pack of cards — and she's still struggling to reshape her life. She joins the knitting class at her children's urging; it's the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. Then she starts a small business and meets a man with whom she has something surprising in common! Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager. She's staying with her grandmother, who's trying to help her… help that takes the form of dragging her to seniors' swim sessions — and to the knitting class at "A Good Yarn." Like so many women, these four find companionship and comfort in each other and in this age-old craft. Who would've thought that knitting socks could change your life?