“Lightning never strikes twice.”

Mom chanted those words anytime something bad happened. She kept the family on track, always smiling.

When the cancer came back, the smile momentarily left her face.

“So much for the laws of lightning,” she said, before she started cooking, filling the freezer with our favorites.

Sarah Scott lives in some part of Canada where she is currently searching for an algorithm to automatically generate witty, one-sentence bios. You can check out some of her writing at oneforonethousand.com.