I am very tired. All last night, menopausal hot flashes surged with the fury of Hades –waking me with hot sweat, and then chilling me cold. After a decade of…
Today it took five attempts before they could Grandpa’s catheter past his enlarged prostate. Three people held him down and I tried to keep him calm while he screamed. Husband…
My mom died almost 25 years ago after a six-week battle with metastasized lung cancer. When she had first died, she was in my mind all the time. Either I…
I believe in forgiveness. I believe in the idea that you can’t just judge a person’s action without also understanding the road they have walked to get to where they…
Since I have known him, Grandpa has found the clip, plant, rake, and weed that goes with taming verdant vegetation deeply satisfying. He likes restoring a gentle order to the…
From the time that I first posed the question seriously to myself as an adult, I discovered I wanted many children. Husband teases me that by our second date I…
Grandpa and I had some of our loveliest times in the playground when the children were babies, when swings, slides, sandboxes and feeding ducks were still their most favorite things.…
Now it is my friend Grace who is gone. Grace and I met soon after I moved to Chicago. Last Christmas, Grace was diagnosed with metastasized stomach cancer, and was…
The humidity had been building in Boston for days. When the sky grew dark from rain-heavy clouds, when thunder began to rumble, Grandpa was not surprised. As the first fat…