Table of Contents
Contents
Prologue
I’ll Have Some of Yours
Mom Needs a Different Home
The First Step
“Sometimes I Think I Have That Disease...What Do They Call It?”
It’s Not About the Shoes
Mom Hates My Hair
My Mother’s Christmas Gift
Lessons After a Burglary
Moving Again
How to Get Out There
Finally, We Find the Right Place
What She Needed
A Different Kind of Parade
Nice and Easy Does It
A Prom Night to Remember
Trying to Go for a Drive
“Right There! Look at That One!”
A Scuffle with My Mother
Alive Inside
Baby Doll
Struggling to Be a Good Daughter
What Is Family? What Is Work?
Adventures at the Beauty Salon
Saying No
Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just the Daughter
Born to Run?
Raising Hell in the Hospital
Drama at Walgreens
Still Saving Her a Seat
What It Means to Be Good
Sometimes, All You Can Do Is Show Up (with Cookies)
The Ultimate Pizzelle Maker
Making Christmas Not so Blue
The Sacrament of Cookies
Unintended Consequences of Caring
Eating Soap
My Mother Has a Fight with the Easter Bunny
Cheering on Lives
Still Life with Jack
The Mystery of the Orange Fingers
A Pretty Good Team
Baby, You’re a Firework
A Long Way to Tipperary
Fight or Switch?
Becoming Vincenzella
Rocking Chair Reflection
A Meaningful Life?
My Mother’s Lists
What to Wear
"Mom Is Outside”
Epilogue
Unforgettable
