" I think I first met your mom at her home in Kingston - I know we stayed for lunch, and I remember walking along the waterfront downtown looking at all the artwork and crafts and jewellery etc. And of course, it was nice to get to know her a little better when all of you stayed here. She was SO different from my own mother, I was very intrigued by her. Her individuality, energy, vibrancy...there was just so much that was unique about her - and yet she was also clearly Mom to you and Kyla and the classic grandmother besotted with her grandsons (yet not in the old fashioned, old granny way, if you know what I mean?) ..." (Memories from a friend of Tom and Ilana's)