Caring for Mom in the Mon Valley While Holding Down a Job

You're at her place in Monessen by quarter to six. Coffee on, pills into the little box, a note left [...]

Why One Sibling Usually Ends Up Doing Everything

Your brother called on Sunday. He talked for a while about how worried he is, asked how Dad's been doing, [...]

You got through another week. Dad's appointments are handled, the prescriptions are filled, there's food in his fridge. And you're [...]

Everything up here is a drive. The clinic is a drive, the good grocery store is a drive, and the [...]

Your mother has been in the same house off National Road most of her life. She raised her kids there, [...]

You told yourself it would be temporary. A few months of extra help, maybe a year, until things settled down. [...]

Though most people associate flu season with October and peaks between the coldest months of the year, the common cold [...]

You stopped by after your shift and the mail was stacked on the chair, two days of dishes were in [...]

The doctor said the words "nursing home" and your mother stopped listening right there. She's been in that house on [...]

Your dad has never asked anybody for help in his life. He served, he worked, he fixed what broke around [...]