Taking Care

This blog is about the challenges faced by caregivers, educators, the young and the elderly, and others needing care and how policy impacts their lives.

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Walk it Out

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How to deal with grief? A friend of mine told me that she found the most effective remedy for the overwhelming depression she felt after her...

Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Kids Are Not All Right, Glenn

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Glenn Beck compared the Norwegian teenagers who were recently murdered in a horrific attack on Utoya Island to “Hitler Youth.” Really. His r...

Monday, July 11, 2011

Social Security is a Women's Issue

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My mother worked from age 14 to age 86 as a professional musician. By the age of 86, she was simply unable to continue. She started taking s...

Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Old Couple at My Mom's ALF

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My mother’s 93rd birthday is next week. I went to see her today at the assisted living facility. Because of my teaching schedule I’m not abl...

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Cup

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It's just a ceramic cup. It fills the hands nicely when it's full of warm peppermint tea. It was smoothed and rounded by someone...

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Poem Inspired by a Photograph at the Mint Museum

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and even this in our shabby lives concocted of chain link and clapboard when the fog has taken everything else are we willing to leave this ...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Requiem for a Friend

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In 1995 I finished my doctorate in English from Florida State University, but I didn’t have much in the way of job prospects, so I cobbled t...

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Pat MacEnulty: Pat MacEnulty is the author of WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR, published by The Feminist Press as well as several novels and a short story collection. For information on my workshops and books, check out my website: www.patmacenulty.org

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