We had a heart-stopping conversation with the medical staff at Mom’s care facility this week. After ascertaining that Mom is doing well,...

Sometimes death is a kindness. That’s what I was thinking when my dad and I attended the funeral of a gentle soul who had been battling...

What a melancholy experience to go through Mom’s closet choosing winter clothes for her. The season has turned, and now Mom needs sweat...

My brother Simon is arriving this Friday for a two-week visit! I am so excited to see him, and also a little trepidatious—he has not seen...

How does the little bird in P.D. Eastman’s classic book, Are You My Mother? know who his mother is? The bird intuits that only his mother...

My dad got it right when he said about my grandmother: “Millie was someone who left an indelible mark on all those who met her and we...

If you had asked me how life was yesterday, I would have written about the quiet day we had in paradise. Mom and I sang songs, drank...