Moving: After our mother passed, our first order of business was to review the contents of her apartment and start the cleaning process. Over the years, our mother had downsized from our family home, to a townhouse and finally to a one-bedroom apartment at Vincent Hall, a retirement community in Northern Virginia. The three of us accomplished a lot over […]
Last week our mother passed away. She was 91 and in a lot of pain. She was sleeping and in the end, while certainly we will miss her, it was for the best. Now the process begins. And I thought it would be interesting to share with you the experience. On Monday, I received a call from my sister that […]
We began this blog on a personal note, maybe not quite our story, but the story of our mother. Our father was sick with cancer, and neither he nor my mother could face the truth and have the hard conversation. He died, she was in a fog, left to figure out what is where. When we are healthy and busy […]