Tag: relationships
group name: sandwichgen
|
May 19, 2008 04:31 PM EDT --
On October 15th of 2006, my mother stood up in the living room of her home, walked three feet and collapsed - suffering a severe GI Bleed.
Despite her insisting to me she did not require an ambulance . . .
more
|
|
October 29, 2008 02:19 PM EDT --
As a Sandwiched Boomer with changing family responsibilities, you have the toughest of balancing acts - attending to kids, parents and personal needs while still nurturing . . .
more
|
|
October 29, 2008 02:18 PM EDT --
By Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. & Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D.
As a Sandwiched Boomer with changing family responsibilities, you have the toughest of balancing acts - attending . . .
more
|
|
October 01, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
The rain beats upon the ole tin roof
Sounds creeping from outside the fence
I was just a girl of ten, you'd surprise
Me with presents from your trips.
Now I remember you.
Every morning I . . .
more
|
|
April 15, 2007 02:36 PM EDT --
We try to ignore it as we go about the humdrum routines of our daily life, those routines that help us feel all is comfortingly "normal". But suddenly (even if we know it's coming, when it . . .
more
|
|
April 20, 2007 12:02 AM EDT --
My birthday. The 40th year of my life. Picasso's birthday too, same day, different year. I look at the number and it seems impossible. How could I have gotten that old already? I used to think 40 was . . .
more
|
|
March 25, 2007 12:56 PM EDT --
Home School Digest is a widely published magazine designed to help parents who have taken on this demanding challenge of educating their own children 24 hours a day. The magazine is filled with anecdotal . . .
more
|
|
December 13, 2007 06:34 AM EST --
The green glass ball was the size of a very large grapefruit. It was an odd, sort of warm shade of green with hints of gold and surprisingly heavy, which implies a certain robust quality that may help . . .
more
|
|
December 29, 2006 07:40 AM EST --
Some people imagine they know all there is to know about every topic under the sun and should any of those topics come up in conversation, they proceed to tell you all about it. Every interaction with . . .
more
|
|
April 06, 2007 08:39 AM EDT --
Who among us has not been touched by cancer? It seems to be one of those things that is so intimately a part of being human that it is everywhere, all the time. In order to function, we need to either . . .
more
|
|
May 27, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
It's always been tough for me to admit I need help, to ask anybody for anything, but this financial bind I got myself into, trying to keep my daughter in the Newton school system, has me in a panic. . . .
more
|
|
July 12, 2007 07:55 AM EDT --
Since RG's been away I've spent more time than usual on the phone. Our circle of friends, our own dysfunctional family, seem to press even closer to me in his absence, as though responding to some . . .
more
|
|
June 02, 2007 12:27 PM EDT --
Steven, the 23 year old I met at Carol and Barbara's Halloween party called me at work today to ask me to a party on Saturday night. He said there would be a lot of architects there from the Boston . . .
more
|
|
October 20, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
The large pink envelope arrived in today's mail. I knew it was a birthday card from my mother. It is part of the ritual, these small gestures that she has always done, her way of showing affection. . . .
more
|
|
July 07, 2007 12:05 PM EDT --
you can't take the country out of the boy. I'm not sure where that platitude came from but my buddy, RG, and I often joke about this concept as it applies to him and our relationship. He, having . . .
more
|
|
October 27, 2007 08:42 AM EDT --
Well, crank my factor up by ten or twenty here.
My son is into competitive forensics. That's the newage term for drama, improv, debate, and oratory. So, I help him rehearse, keep his . . .
more
|
|
June 17, 2007 02:02 PM EDT --
As my flight from Washington DC landed on time at Logan airport this morning, I remembered that today was Father's Day. I'd been at SIVERDOCS a big film festival and conference all week and I was . . .
more
|
|
January 27, 2008 11:18 AM EST --
It's not like I've sailed through life being untouched by death. My husband died at the relatively youthful age of 52. I was 10 years younger and had left him years earlier. He was also the father . . .
more
|
|
March 02, 2008 01:02 PM EST --
They came in a plain, small, cardboard box. RG was home when the doorbell rang. The postman handed over the parcel and had him sign for it. Then he called me at the office to tell me it had arrived. I'd . . .
more
|
|
July 08, 2007 10:32 AM EDT --
35 minutes, I thought my time would have been better than that. Before RG left we had been running that same distance in 32-33 minutes. We keep track on the kitchen calendar recording our times. Last time . . .
more
|
|
|
|
