I wrote my mom’s obituary this week. I discovered that distilling the life of a woman as amazing as my mother down to a few paragraphs was a lot harder than I ever imagined, and I struggled with it.

My brothers and sisters-in-law said it was beautiful and perfect, and that they wouldn’t change it. But there’s so much more to my mom than those few words. She was my inspiration and my best friend, and a few mere sentences could never be enough.

I haven’t blogged in many, many years. But I have had so many thoughts and memories coursing through my head this week that I wanted to get written down that I felt compelled to start a new one.