Today, I want to wish “Happy Birthday” to my beautiful mother, Ruth Kinsman Smith Cody Ward. She would have been 103 years of age today — Friday, Sept. 28. We lost her on Jan. 4, 2012 at the age of 96, but she is so vibrantly alive in my heart that she seems to be with me still.
The year before her passing, she came to live with my sister and me here in the…


