True story. I cooked, cleaned & paid bills in my daughter’s house. She said, “If you can’t work, what’s the point of you being here?”

helping. I was working.

There is a difference between choosing to be present and being scheduled into a role that nobody discussed with you, but that everyone now depends on.

I started waking up tired.

My lower back, which has troubled me since a car accident in my late 50s, began flaring in ways it hadn’t in years.

I was on my feet most of the day making continue reading …