Under the Wire

This story will sound like it is going to be sad. Don’t worry. It is just the opposite.

A few years ago Christmas Eve, my mother passed away. She had lived a long, happy and challenging life. A few days from her 97th birthday, she had emptied her bucket list. In fact probably several buckets, maybe even a barrel or two.

Her life was happy because she and my father were married 67 years before he passed on. Another big source of her happiness was my little sister, Pam. Adding to her source of giggles and laughs was Sue when she entered the family over 30-plus years ago.

Now to the challenging p...