Last Sunday I got one of those calls that turn your life inside out for a while. It, fortunately, did not end in tragedy – just chaos for my plans.

Ahhh plans. Such a neat idea.

In the interest of only 15 minutes for the Free Write Friday, I’ll skip to the short version which is that I have been helping my mother every day for the last week, mostly staying with her overnight and transporting her to her husband, who is in the hospital. Also, that this