Lyn Jensen

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 — Tragic and Fateful Day

The house was abnormally quiet, despite the sound of running water about to overflow the kitchen sink.

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: 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: 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

Life After Mother: Designs for Outdoor Living

If I’m to re-design the back yard into a more usable outdoor living space, I’ll also need to replant the…

2 years ago

Life After Mother: Cost of Cremation

My father didn’t want a funeral or memorial, so I considered three options: to keep his ashes in a private…

2 years ago

LIFE AFTER MOTHER Grave Trumped by Fairway

How the Trump family designated Ivana’s final resting place and how they’re now handling the distribution of her property provides…

3 years ago