A few weeks back one Saturday afternoon in San Antonio, TX, my cousin Gabriela Nunez and I went ahead and interviewed our mothers - Minerva Nunez and Diana Moore - in what was once our grandmother's house that has stood since the earl 1900's. What emerged was a conversation that ranged from such topics as eating dirt; 1950's social clubs; high school pranks; history; art; education; religion; machismo; our fathers' pick-up lines; children; gender and gender-fluidity; to the fierce, primal power, strength, and grace of the Mexican American Mother.