I found this review my mom wrote about me online a few years ago. After she was gone. Five stars.
Kim Komando
The title alone tells you everything about her: “Kim is my daughter and I would like to share the inside scoop.”
No subtle entrance. She walked into the internet like she owned it and went straight to defending her kid.
She told strangers about Bell Labs when I was 10, sitting next to her, working with technology two decades ahead of its time. About my computer science degree from ASU. About the 60-hour weeks. She wrote that I work on vacation “because technology does not wait.” Five words. She summed up my entire career in five words.
But here’s the part that gets me. Somebody had complained online that there were ads on my show and in my newsletters. So my mom sat down at the keyboard and explained to the internet that running a building full of servers and a staff of real humans with health benefits is, in fact, expensive. She defended me line by line, like a prosecutor with receipts. My mom was not a tech person. She didn’t sit on review sites for fun. But somebody on the internet was wrong about her daughter, and that was that.
And then she wrote this: “As her mother, I feel an overwhelming sense of happiness when perfect strangers tell me how she made a positive difference in their lives.”
That’s the line I keep reading.
She didn’t measure me in numbers or reach or ratings. She measured me in strangers. One person helped, then another, then another. That’s it. That’s the whole metric.
I’m trying to live up to that on a Sunday in May. Five years after she’s gone. With a kitchen that still smells like her recipes when I get them right.
Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. The inside scoop is that you were the reason for all of it. ❤️🩹