Don’t Be A Stranger

My mother Sue. (Montage and all photos are my own.)

Five hours after learning of my mother’s death, I wrote this:

It’s Tuesday, 10 August 2021. My mother died today.

My twin sister called me early this morning with this news, and I’m still not sure what, if anything, I should be feeling. I’m a bit weepy and sad, and that’s conflicting a little with my questioning why this is bothering me at all, really, given that my mother and I were never close. But I…