on the way

As I told our house guest, I have mostly ignored the issue of my mother's death due to the distance, but will be there by the time I post this.

My relationship with her has been lacking due to issues in my childhood, but in recent years we've moved past that. It's still been complicated by a lack of communication with my father, my sister, and her husband. We have sides and I'm not on theirs and information I share gets passed around and my position is not respected, so what I wrote to my mother could become "public" to all them when my father read her email or mail. I expect something that I think is private to remain that way.

I will see how the interactions with relatives go.