Meta answer, which is probably going to get modded down (no love for Tim Ferriss on HN):
Read (and let her read) Tim Ferriss' "4 hour work week". While the goals discussed in that book are different, it has lots of useful advice about how to set up businesses that run themselves, which is probably what your Mom needs.
Read (and let her read) Tim Ferriss' "4 hour work week". While the goals discussed in that book are different, it has lots of useful advice about how to set up businesses that run themselves, which is probably what your Mom needs.
See e.g. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/12/11/engineering-... for examples. Of course, these are the successful case studies and there are failures - but there is a lot of good info and interesting ideas in that book.