Today mom would’ve turned 80 years old. It could’ve been a pretty epic Mother’s Day celebration. Instead, this summer, we’ll mark 15 years without her. I’m still not as old as she was when she became a mother, my mother. Later this year, I’ll turn 40 and we could have celebrated my being half her age, finally. When I was a kid, I used to tell her “someday I’ll be 40 and you’ll be 80.” I really had no idea what those meant besides numbers. After so many years, missing her r...
