My mother died today...

...forty-two years ago...and I'm leaving my job today...and what do these two things have to do with one another, anyway?

My mother, young, slim, and wearing a silk sari - probably around 30 years old, if that…I’m a terrible judge of age.

December 10th, 1979. I was scheduled to travel from college in Marlboro, Vermont to Boston, Massachusetts to get onto an airplane and go home to Cincinnati, Ohio to see my mother, who was very ill.

She had been ill for a long time - 11 year…