Last photo

Here is the last photo of my mom:

I forgot that we had held hands in it.
Tell me: how did I lose this woman just a few hours later?

Legacy

My mom once said to me that she wished she had done the sort of work she had dreamed of, that she had become the pediatric nurse that she once planned on being, or had been able to stay in the Girl Scout office.  But she didn’t; she didn’t have the life of meaningful work [...]

The chaos continues

Yesterday was a long draining day.  From waking up to crashing after midnight, it was a day of doing 50 things at once.  My house is command central with everyone’s cell phones and my house phone in use.  I literally would be on the computer, the little bit I was home working on the obituary, [...]