speaks glowingly I thought it was a pretty balanced article and learned a couple of things:
Didn't realize his family had been so poor while he was growing up. Or that he had spent so much time alone on the land.
A horse, a dog and room to wander. Reminds me of my childhood.
Momma Perry knows quilts, not politics, doesn't know if son is running for president [snip]..........."The governor's mother said she isn't involved with politics on any level and spends most of her free time making quilts.
"I don't sell my quilts, but I will give them away to special people," she said.
Perry said that when her children were growing up, she made all of their clothing.
"They didn't have store-bought clothes — I made them," she said."...........
Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News Amelia Perry(right), mother of Texas Gov. Rick Perry, shows her quilts at a meeting of the Buffalo Gap Republican Woman's Club at Perini Ranch Steakhouse Friday. Perry called this quilt her "Scarlet O'Hara" quilt, because she made it out of a curtain during a time she was getting cancer treatments and spending most of her time at home.
Family photo of Rick Perry as a child, posing with a horse in Paint Creek, Texas.
Anita and Rick Perry -- dove hunting