"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…