Lyn Jensen

Lyn Jensen has been a freelance journalist in southern California since the 80s. Her byline has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register, the Los Angeles Weekly, the Los Angeles Reader, Music Connection, Bloglandia, Senior Reporter, and many other periodicals. She blogs about music, manga, and more at lynjensen.blogspot.com and she graduated from UCLA with a major in Theater Arts. Follow her on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook.

Life After Mother, Five to Ten Years

About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that…

1 year ago

LIFE AFTER MOTHER: Right to Choose Death with Dignity

Explaining why the couple went to Switzerland when some states have right-to-die laws concerning physician-assisted death, Bloom writes, “Choosing to…

1 year ago

Life After Mother, The Emptiest Day

What’s surprising is that I feel such emptiness when I’ve long since been used to being emotionally distant from either…

1 year ago

Life After Mother: Magical Thinking, a Sense of Disbelief

   “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it…

1 year ago

Life After Mother: Spark Joy and Love

“The true purpose of tidying is not to cut down your possessions or unclutter your space,” Kondo advises as well,…

2 years ago

LIFE AFTER MOTHER: Swedish Death Cleaning

It’s meant to combine a physical transformation of organizing one’s home and possessions while at the same time allowing an…

2 years ago

Life After Mother: Home for Christmas

When I look at these photos now, I see time-capsule documentation of beginnings — the beginning of a family, a…

2 years ago

Life After Mother: Five Winters

I’ve now lived alone in my family home for nearly five years, and the home was built for a nuclear…

2 years ago

Life After Mother: Horrors of Dementia

Had my mother been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, a specific brain disease that results in dementia, she would have accessed a…

2 years ago

Life After Mother: Enough to Lose a Garbage Bin

When I first looked at my mother’s two-car garage, stuffed so full you could lose a garbage bin in it,…

2 years ago