On Wednesday, April 2nd, I said goodbye to my beautiful mother, who graced this world for 77 years. She passed peacefully, with my dad, my brother, and me by her side.
I cannot think of anyone who had a more profound impact on my life. She was fearless — an entrepreneur before her time — and she instilled in me the drive to be the best at whatever I chose to do.
But most of all, following nearly 15 years as a stroke survivor and the disabilities she endured, she taught all of us how to live life with courage, compassion, grace, gratitude, and, most of all, love.
I love and miss her to the moon and back.