life after mother

Life After Mother:  Compassion, Choices and Courage

My mother often expressed her support for the right of terminal patients to end their own lives, sometimes saying she’d…

3 years ago

Life After Mother: Overwhelmed by Free Gifts

My parents both gave generously to nonprofit organizations, and those organizations were very generous with the “free gifts” often packaged…

3 years ago

Telemarketing Preys on Seniors

My mother is still alive on countless telemarketing lists, whether from robocalls or human salespersons. It’s bad enough I get…

4 years ago

Stop Procrastinating About Estate Planning

Getting my mother to stop procrastinating and make a decision, any decision, about her estate, was a “someday” task for…

4 years ago

Cash Instead of Trash

My mother watched in horror what happened after the elderly couple that lived next door to her died within months…

4 years ago

King Tut’s Tomb

My mother and father were both still alive when I started packing the contents of their homes, so my plans…

4 years ago

Life After Mother — Danger to Yourself and Others

My mother never accepted, after her stroke in 2017 and a diagnosis of dementia (which she never accepted, either), that…

4 years ago