Thinking back to my mom happens more often now.

Mom passed away December 19, 2016. She was seventy-nine years old and had been struggling with Lewy Body dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). At one point the doc called her lung disease emphysema. I never referred to the COPD this way because, as a kid, I learned emphysema caused a kind of drilling out of the pulmonary tissue, basically, turning lungs into Swiss cheese. Knowing the Swiss cheese effect of emphysema, I much...