By T. R. Robertson My 82-year-old father was sick at Thanksgiving. By Christmas he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. One month later he was gone. Learning How to Live His departure left my 80-year-old mother grieving the loss of her companion of 60 years. Dad had been the lynchpin holding together the independent […]
By Lynn Duke When should a family come up with a plan for taking care of their care of their aging parents? The answer is now! Don’t wait until an emergency occurs and the stress of the situation causes you to make a poor choice. Then you’ll be getting all kinds of opinions on what […]
By Donna Brendel I’ve lost many family members over the years, starting with my mom when I was only 10 years old. I didn’t watch her die, but we were both in a house fire that took her life. Although my siblings and I all escaped the flames and toxic smoke, neither my mom nor […]
Part 3 of our Family Matters series is called Mixed & Blending. We look at the variety of ways families can be pieced together. Some families include foster children. Some parents have adopted. Other families deal with divorce, death, remarriage, and a number of instances that meld together several families into one. Whatever situation you […]
By Karen O’Connor I remember well the day my Grandpa Ennis, my mother’s father, came to live with our family. We had to change the sleeping arrangements to make room for him in our small apartment and again in the new house we moved to a few years later. I thought it was special to […]
