uh oh I may have started something.

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Maybe the best thing, lrulan, if you want to spend a couple hrs. (it will be that) is to set up a simple blog shell for her. Wordpress.com offers several different types of designs (they call them "themes"). Ignore the fee-based themes --there are free ones.

Does your mother use word processing software or entered information into a simple database? For the latter exposure, that makes the transition to blogging very easy.
I set up a blog for my partner. Now he does everything..but then he is technically oriented. He does his own web site (which I don't know how to do. I don't know html coding though I realize it's not hard.)

As for embedding photos --it's an extra step. But not hard. Show her later after she gets a few posts up.
Wordpress has other cool features --which I wouldn't allow oneself to get intimidated.

I would not recommend Facebook --I get the powerful feeling your mother has lots to say. Kudos to her, lrulan. And her audience would be more limited because it requires people to subscribe to Facebook. (And not everyone wants to). Whereas a blog on the open internet, makes it easier for anyone from anywhere with just Internet access to read stuff.