by External Article | Jan 6, 2022 | Caring for a Friend |
I was in my twenties the first time I heard the concept of the “chosen family,” and it’s hard to overstate how much it resonated with me. … Sure, the concept of the chosen family has been great for the privileged class, and the young and attractive — people who...
by External Article | Dec 25, 2021 | Caring for a Parent, Death & Dying |
My mother and father never married. This meant, as my mother explained, that I was his legal next of kin, responsible for making his medical decisions. This responsibility, already complex because of his lack of a living will, would prove to be even more fraught...
by External Article | Apr 11, 2019 | Baby Boom Generation, Care Work Library, Caring for a Parent, Long Term Caregiving, Sandwich Generation |
Though not technically estranged, our relationship was tenuous at best, stitched together only by threads of my guilt and desire not to be someone who had no contact with her mother. She had driven my father, my sister, her siblings and her friends away decades ago....
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