Farewell for Now
Mother's 90th birthday party with my mother-in-law's help Well, I think I may have come to the end of my blogging days; for a while anyway. I began blogging a decade ago as an outlet when I was taking care of my mother. She had just begun what I would come to think of as the long final decline a few months after her 90th birthday. As an only child, it was a lonely time: no one really trains you for caring for the people who cared for you. It's scary, frankly: to have a human's life in your hands like that. It's different in so many ways from parenting a child, and that's got its own fears of course, as I learned so clearly. Blogging about all of that helped me. I hoped it would help others as well. My dog blog however was supposed to be a celebration of life with pets. A happy story of furry adventures in this city I love so much. Of course life doesn't follow a script, so events took us down another road. One that ...
