Dementia

My Mother Said She Hates Me

Why my biggest caregiving challenge is resentment

A Mother’s Report Card

What the past can tell you about your mother that she can’t

Aunty’s Aloe Ancestry

It just keeps growing

A Place For Pauline

When the child becomes the parent

She Always Forgot the Biscuits

A mind slowly extinguished, a Thanksgiving tradition, and an empty seat…

What If a Mother Doesn’t Recognize Her Daughter?

Fiction Friday

The Immeasurable Burden of Parenting My Parents

Why the good days are sometimes the worst days

What it Means to Be an Independent Woman

My mother wouldn’t have called herself a progressive or a…

All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

I kept telling her she didn’t need a dress since she wasn’t going to…

I Still Remember

I still remember
Even though at the end, you no longer did
Childhood memories linger
Looking forward, always, to those visits…