A Beautiful Time - Mom's Lessons on Dying . And Living

90 Pages. Heartwarming stories of a mother's last days with cancer and how her children coped with the situation, reminiscing about the past. Contents in 22 Chapters: First Race, The News, Momand Dad, A Life Together, Death, Talking to Mom, The House, Second Race, Last Christmas, Mom's Visits, Third Race, Acceptance, Switching Roles, Famiy Stories, The Desk, Last Birthday, Reliving a Memory, Mom's Hospice, Breaking Down the House, The Desk Gets a New Home, Good-Bye to Mom, and Forth Race. A daughter runs a race and discovers her mother's love, setting the stage for an intimate memoir of life stories. This is the story of Virginia Fenoglio, about that summer and the years before, her house, her husband and her chidren. It all came together in those last few months of her life. Mom's dying, it turned out, was a beautiful time. Fenoglio lives in Albuquerque where she is a children's lawyer, a cancer volunteer and a writer. She runs a half-marathon race each year.