"My mom is a writer, she lives in Arizona." "Oh, I guess...that's really cool." But it's all so much more than "mymomisawritershelivesinarizona"; that simple sentence that is dumbed down to the point of being banal cannot encompass what I would really like to tell you about her: "My mom is one of my very best and certainly my oldest friends, you see she's a writer and she passed her gift on to me…