Thanks so much for all your kind words, thoughts, and prayers over these
past few days. I feel so blessed to have this community of friends here to
help me when times get difficult.

As much as I had prepared myself for this moment over the previous months,
you can never really prepare. To wake up knowing that someone who has always
been there, isn't any more, is about as devastating as life gets. When
mother dies, one is, for the first time, really alone in the world. I want
to talk to my Mom, tell her what happened, but she is gone. She left this
world for a better place and all of her pains ended. You were there for my
very first breath, and I was there for your last...

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother." -- Abraham
Lincoln

Friedrich