I haven’t written much in a while. I spent a lot of time sick after my burst of energy that led to a few posts in April, and the fact that my living situation and family situations are in flux didn’t help me spare the energy to stay caught up on the blog. One of the things that I did that took so much energy was wading through Mother’s Day. To give you an idea how traumatic it is, I’m just now able to write about it after having processed it all.

One of the things that happened that weekend w...