A Goodbye to My Mother by Bea Tifton

My blog is late, because I have struggled to write it, dear Reader. My amazing, beautiful, clever mother passed away May 1st, and my heart is broken. I have so many wonderful memories of my mother. One of the earliest is when I was three years old. Each year Mom made Christmas cookies. She made some shaped like the state of Texas, and I was thrilled when she told me I was old enough to put the…