Commentary: How the pandemic forced me to rethink my relationship with my mother

I believe my mother and I have always had a close relationship — except for the years I was coming of age and knew everything better.

Now I am middle-aged, and she is 83. We are experiencing some of the role reversal that happens as our parents age and we care for them and worry about them the way they did for us when we were growing up. The pandemic has put a certain twist on this in my