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The bread in our sandwich

by Elizabeth on June 2nd, 2008

This post at Nourishing Relationships had me at the line:

“When you are told by your secretary that a nurse is on the line, do you try to guess if it is the school or the nurse in the cardiac care unit?”

The article by Roberta Benor reprinted there, “Food for the Sandwich Generation: the Meanings Behind the Bread You Choose”, published in the Washington Post in 1992, looks at life between elderly parents and children and how you cope with it all:

Just as in a deli, when you are asked what kind of bread you would like for your sandwich, you also can make the symbolic choice of what kind of bread you want to define the way you are able to handle your responsibilities in the sandwich generation.

Though it’s possible I’m just hungry and the talk of sandwiches attracted me, I thought it was an interesting way to look at things.

Read the rest at Nourishing Relationships.

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