

December 2020
I'm writing this on Black Friday after a very strange Thanksgiving. I knew this would be a different one and had made new plans for how that would look. But, as 2020 would have it, even that changed at the last moment on Tuesday night. My beautiful mother took a trip on the sidewalk and face planted into the corner of a brick stair shattering her nose and breaking her neck. She was lucky, the broken vertebrae did not sever the artery and her brain, to quote the doctor "looks