Mother’s Day Weekend – RIP Brenda Rein May 2, 2010
Today is the first truly bittersweet Mother’s Day in my life. I learned a week ago last Sunday that my step-mother, Brenda Rein, passed away from esophageal cancer (after battling with it for years). Yesterday, I would have sent her a Mother’s Day card. Today, my Dad, sister, and Brenda’s family/friends in Oakland, CA are having the burial. I’m not there to take part, but I sit here in my New York apartment and think of her. She was a dynamo of a lady – intelligent, beautiful, classy, stylish, well-read and well-traveled. Before my dad, she was married to an