The Glenna Aimee Boroson Memorial

1. She liked the movie adaptions of the Stieg Larsson trilogy, though she never got around to reading the books. That was atypical for her– but she loved stories of sleuthing and also stories with themes of justice.

2. She was an obsessive fan of Sherlock Holmes in the original stories– and the Basil Rathbone depictions on screen. (She was disappointed with Cumberpatch.)

3. Makeup. So much makeup. Not so much on her face, but a large bathroom in the house largely taken up by it, which I am slowly throwing away. As an artist she was an illustrator and a painter, and she used that obsessive perfectionism on the canvas of her face as well.

4. Big sunglasses, huge, 70s style. The kind that make the wearer look like they have insect eyes. I can’t look at them in movies without thinking of her– they were one of her signature items.

This is going to be a memorial blog and archive about my mother, Glenna Aimee Boroson, also known as Glenna Low. She was born on December 7th 1942 and died August 8th 2012, and in the years between she was a remarkable daughter, friend, mother, teacher, artist, and inspiration to those who knew her.

I am Clifford Hartleigh Low, her son and very proud of that fact. I will be the primary editor and contributor to this blog, but not the only one. This virtual place will serve as a way for those who knew her to keep her memory alive and fresh for the rest of our lives, to learn more about her (because she was a truly remarkable person), and for others who never knew her to learn about someone who impacted our lives so deeply in many ways.