Happy Birthday Mom...

Today would have been my mother's 52nd birthday.
My mother, Sandra Ann Box, passed away May 21, 1995. I may be 31 years old, but losing my mother to cancer was the most life-changing event I have experienced. I have a lot of unresolved "mommy issues." It influences everything about me: my relationships, my fears, my insecurities, my aspirations. I plan on getting a tribute tattoo in honor of my mother. (It won't be a heart with "Mother" written on it) November is tough. My mother's birthday, the loss of my grandfather, holidays without loved-ones. I hope that the tattoo will be cathartic, a therapeutic way of helping me to heal and go about living my life. I am not sure when I will get it. (I still need to come up with a design) But when I do, I will post a picture.

Sandra Ann Box
11/29/55 - 5/21/95