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Midlife Changes

A Dad’s Humanity…Fighting For Health and Humanity Part 1

May 7, 2020July 17, 2015 by Shay

Writing is how I process and make sense of the world. So even though I have just returned from the longest week of my life and, as many have suggested,  I should rest…well, the fact is that rest is simply not a priority for me. On my first day back home, the news of yet …

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Categories Midlife Changes Tags aging parents, sandwich generation 3 Comments

When life gets real or off to tend to my dad

May 23, 2017July 8, 2015 by Shay

Long time readers of this space know that I lost my mom a number of years ago. I am down to one parent who stands between me becoming the family elder… a role that I am not ready for at this time. A couple of years ago, we thought we might lose my dad but …

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Lonely moments…musings from my own silo

May 23, 2017June 28, 2015 by Shay

In a time when it seems every day brings yet another story of just how how much work we still need to do on race relations, even I have a moment when I just need to step back. While this space has become primarily focused on race, there are times when I need to go …

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