Thank you, Kathy. My mother died in 1998. She had had a memory disorder akin to Alzheimers for about 10 years. It was very difficult. She grew up a poor farm girl in southeast Alabama, and I fondly remember her saying "It's all over but the shoutin'". Do you know that saying?

EmmaG

"I believe very deeply that compassion is the route not only for the evolution of the full human being, but for the very survival of the human race." —The Dalai Lama