Today is Grandparents Day at my kids’ school. My mother used to love going, and, being the grandmother. My dad has never been able to attend because he’s a teacher, and, can’t fathom a day off ;)
I never thought much about the day either way other than to pray my kids didn’t give her a […]
I’m trying to clean a few things up around here, and, one of those tasks is to update my blogroll.
If you write about caregiving, aging, or being in between aging parents and children please and would like to be added to the blogroll links down there on the right, please leave a comment.
If you […]
Unfortunately, we don’t always find the humor involved in being a caregiver.
So, I especially enjoyed Top Ten Signs You Are a Sandwich Caregiver:
10. You envy people who lead simpler, less stressful lives, like air-traffic controllers.
9. Your old 9-to-5 grind is now the “good ol’ days.”
8. You wonder how much it would cost to have your […]
My friend, Newscoma reflects on becoming an adult:
There are those official moments when you know you’ve been tossed into adultdom and you know it. Illness of a parent or making long-term lifetime commitments are the obvious choices of when we do “Crap, I’m a damned adult. Get me out of here.”
And, her post on the […]
Did you know that musician John Mayer has a nice song about aging parents:
It’s on his aptly named Continuum album.
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One of the pleasures of blogging is getting to meet online friends in real life.
Reader Larisa was visiting my area this weekend, and, I really enjoyed meeting her! She and her friends were very glad I didn’t turn out to be an ax murderer.
Nope, no ax, screwdriver or nothing. I am, though, $50 […]
Libertyville is a TV sitcom pilot starring Tony Award winner Christine Ebersole about a divorced mother caught between a 22-year-old daughter and grumpy father.
The plan is for Lifetime to pick it up, but I just have one question: Why wasn’t I picked to star in it? I am, after all the Sandwich Generation Poster Child. […]
The deadline for video submissions for the PBS Special: Caring For Your Parents has been extended to February 29th, 2008.
Caring For Your Parents, by award-winning filmmaker and FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk. The program profiles five American families caring for aging parents and the struggles they confront.
To complement the program, The WGBH Lab invites you to […]
The conversion to digital television in the United States is a year away, so, people are beginning to make preparations if they need to make any changes to their current television reception situation.
According to a new study by MassPIRG, some mass market retailers are misleading people, often the low-income and elderly, who don’t know what […]
While everyone might not want to live to age 100, there is a certain fascination with people who do live that long, and, longer.
The question on everyone’s mind is, “How did you do it?”
Along with genetic blessing, a common answer to the key to longevity question is “healthy living”.
Now, it looks like the key to […]
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