A Portrait of My Mother, from Provincetown to Provincetown, AZ Jewish Post

A Portrait of My Mother, from Provincetown to Provincetown, AZ Jewish Post

For as long as I can remember, the portrait of my mother hung on the living room wall. First, it graced our apartment on the top floor of a two-family house in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Then, in fifth grade, we upscaled and moved into a one-family house. The painting went with us and again took a place of honor in the living room. Years later, after my father died, my mother moved to Florida, the painting in tow. And when my mother relocated i…