The Truth of It
Carolyn MaloneWriting the truth about grief, disability, and caregiving from lived experience.
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Buttering His Bread
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“Carolyn, you need to butter his bread,” my mom implored as she cooked us breakfast at her house. To her, it was an emergency. You would have thought the man was moments from starvation rather than sitt...
So I Left Him On His Own
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When my partner, who has Mild Cognitive Impairment, texted me that his friends were dropping by in twenty minutes, he wasn’t asking if I minded if they came. He was informing me.
What he expected was obvi...
You Mean I Have To Do This Again Tomorrow?
“Every day I have to take a fucking shower and show up in the world,” I whined to my social worker last week in my caregiver support group, “and I’m sick of it.”
“I want a day where I don’t have to take a shower, or comb my hair, or put on...
The Language of Erasure
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A few weeks ago, my instructor in my fall prevention class used the word “height challenged” to describe me and other people in my class.
I interjected, “Why not just say I am short? I am short. There is no...
To My Beautiful Mom
My beautiful Mom.
It is Mother’s Day here in the United States, and it is the first one without my mom. So, I pay homage to the woman who gave me life.
My mom died in a nursing home that used to be the hospital where she was the “big fish...
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Writer telling the truth about caregiving, grief, and disability from lived experience — without softening the edges, and without flinching from what it means to live honestly in a difficult life. Work republished by Mamamia (Australia).
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