Here I am in chilly, dreary NY! From GA to Update NY is always a strange trip. The contrast is insane. This city has the least amount of sunlight in America. People up here suffer from depression and vitamin D deficiency. Down South--well, it's the South!

Anyways, it was nice to finally spend Mother's Day with my mom, for the first time in 6 years. But a terrible thing tainted the day: someone very dear to me lost his mother, a saintly woman who always had nice things to say about me and my family. I will miss her and her family will too. But I'll be praying to and for her since I know she is clearly in heaven.

I'm getting ready for Ukraine...I still don't have the plane ticket but all the volunteers who are going have met up via email and they all sounds pretty much...well, like me.