Mother Lode - Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver

She promised one year to live with her stubbornly independent mother, clean out the house her parents had stashed with musty history for five decades, and move her mother into assisted living. Four years later, daughter and mother are still in the kitchen fighting over food and territory, dementia and blindness in this fierce, compassionate, humorous story of self-discovery and forgiveness.

About the author

Gretchen Staebler is a wandering adventurer who left decades of grown-up life on the East Coast at age sixty to return to the mountains, beaches, and rain of her soul’s home in the Pacific Northwest. She blogs about her adventures from coffee shops, her father’s desk, national park lodges, her tent—wherever she feels cozy. She lives with her cat in Centralia, Washington (the real one).

Summary

She promised one year to live with her stubbornly independent mother, clean out the house her parents had stashed with musty history for five decades, and move her mother into assisted living. Four years later, daughter and mother are still in the kitchen fighting over food and territory, dementia and blindness in this fierce, compassionate, humorous story of self-discovery and forgiveness.

Product details

• Authors: Gretchen Staebler
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 18.10.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9781647422837
• ISBN: 978-1-64742-283-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Later Years, MEDICAL / Caregiving