
If there is a month that celebrates transition, it is September. It is the time when parents observe the annual age-old tradition of escorting a child to his/her first day of school, from Pre-K to college. For any parent, it is both an exciting and emotional rite of passage whatever the age or stage of the child.
This year, I found myself in a new transitional role, assisting my mother as she moved from the house where she raised her family to the first home she would occupy as a single person, after fifty-six years of marriage. It was a defining moment in both Mom’s life and in mine.
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