When I was a kid I often had the job of cooking breakfast on the weekends for mom and my little sister. Chocolate chip pancakes and / or chocolate chip blueberry muffins were the usual fare. Then we’d eat on tray tables in the living room and watch cartoons or Saturday morning football or Star […]
A few months after my son was born, my little sister heroically managed to get herself and mom here to Los Angeles. She flew from Seattle to Florida, got my mom, and then flew with her here. I can never thank her enough for that. I can’t remember ever seeing my mom as giddy as […]
Here’s mom beaming with joy as she looks at me (off-camera) holding her first grandchild. This is just about the happiest I ever remember seeing her in my life. She so desperately wanted to be a grandmother, to be the new Nana in the family. She had already started to go downhill by that point; […]
My mother’s friend from church asked my little sister to write a “cover letter” which she could bring with her when visiting doctors. My sister emailed me a copy. Here is what she wrote: To Whom It May Concern: My mother, Kathleen Gagne, has recently been displaying some short-term memory deficiencies and difficulties functioning in […]