Waling The Last Mile With Mom

I received this note yesterday:

“Hey Steven. I don’t know if you remember, but i shared stage with you once in XXXX at a XXXX reading I believe in early XXXX. I’m writing you because I saw on a post you did a week or so back how you didn’t deny your mother’s love, even as she hurled obscenities at you because she was in cognitive decline. Recently, I’m noticing the same starting in my own mother, this coming on the tale of several physical ailments. The fact that she’s a stubborn and angry person isn’t helping, and as a result, I’ve been a walking ball of anxiety for several…