I’ve been thinking of my mom a lot in the last few days…

she spent the last months of her life at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, in the final stages of esophageal cancer…

I was blessed with the time to be able to spend those final days with her…

they were hard but so important…

she was a WREN during WWII, a survivor of mental illness, a caregiver for her husband, a poet, a proud Legion and Army and Navy member, and a participant in the organizing of the Women’s War Memorial by the Legislature…

she was strong, but it took me many years to really understand that;-)…