Mother Had Moveitis
Berg, Marilyn
Moveites is what we called my mother's affinity to be constantly finding a new house to rent. We lived in 10 different houses in my childhood, several in the same area of the East Grand Forks, Minnesota Point area. Each one had something better than the last - like an indoor toilet, an extra bedroom, a better furnace or whatever else my mother decided that would be nicer for our family. When the Point grade school closed we moved across the ri...