I wrote these stories and reflections a few months after my mom died. She left on July 23rd 2012, Here Now: Waking Up to My Life was born the following February while my family lived on the road in a 27ft RV, parked in the Arizona Desert. Most of the stories are not about her, and all of them are simple sketches, or what I now (in 2021) call rough drafts. My intention back then was to begin. That's all. Begin moving beyond writing practice, and allow...