An update on my mom, and on letting go

I decided, I will do 2 blog posts at once, since I had an amazing and difficult day with my mom yesterday, and I simply have to write it out, to keep my sanity, plus folks expressed interest in the story of my adventures, raising money for me to be able to travel to Moscow, after I learned that my mom had a heart attack and a stroke and was in the hospital. If you want to read the post on short story being a valid art form, go here. If, however, you want to read an update on my mom, I'm warn...