Mom is now in a senior's home. She's been asking for several months, and a recent turn of events, and the progression of her dementia and short-term memory loss made for necessary quick decisions.

I moved back to Canada from the Bahamas in late summer 2011; and before winter 2012, I moved my mother in with me.

She's been a construction man's wife; owned her own restaurant, lived in highway and logging camps in Northern Manitoba as a new mom, dressed as Santa and helped deliver gifts to Native kids in the north