New Year’s Goals and Resolutions, Anyone?

A look back at 2021

It was a stressful, agonizing year. In March, an ambulance took my mother to the hospital and then later to a rehab facility. Sadly, she could no longer stay in the home she’d been in for seventeen years, so rehab transferred her to a long-term care facility. And we knew it was the final stop.

Life is a vapor. It passes by so quickly. And it was never clearer to me than this year.

From April until September, I traveled to my mother’s condo eight hours away and spent two weeks...