mother's day/it takes a village...

Mother's Day always had this weird tension for me. Even though my brother, yipo (maternal great aunt), and I had this yearly tradition of making my mom breakfast in bed (that always ended in my dad eating most of it), there was always this artificial quality to it. My mom and I didn't have the best relationship growing up, much of it I think due to culturally-based miscommunication. It's gotten

colorectal cancer

This is very difficult for me to deal with, both because I'm not ready to come to terms with it and because I know so little.My father was recently diagnosed with advanced rectal cancer, a form of colon cancer that (obviously) spreads to the rectum. What this means is over the next ten months, he will undergo a series of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and surgery, which will leave him weakened and