I am sorry that you had to deal with your mother's death. You are not alone. I read your story that made me very sad. I like your video on the internet, and I have never thought of it. I am impressed with your history story, "The Wondering Years." It is important for anyone to write their story for their children's next generation.
My previous generations never brought up their story except several old pictures without their names on them. I was the only one to find and scanned very old photographs and saved them on my CD. I was very exhaused from scanning them because it was slow, re-fix the positions, and the corrected resolutions. Now, I forgot all about the stories. It was too late that my grandmother passed away a few years ago, and she doesn't remember her old time except she loved to talk about her father and they speak in German. She spoke English very well.
In your "The Wondering Years," there is a picture of a lady that looked like my grandmother - almost same face (2nd page, in the middle, and above the picture). Her name was Josephine. She never smiled in her whole life because she rather to live in Germany, but her family moved to America during WWI. That's about it.
