My Mother Isn’t Here

And I don’t know if she’s ever coming back

I haven’t written much of anything this month because I’ve been going through a crisis concerning my 91-year-old mother. Things have been different since we got a call from the Life Alert company at 10 p.m. on November 2, the Monday night before the election. I raced the 4 or 5 blocks to my mother’s house, where she lives alone, to find her sprawled on the…