Category: Family
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Just Keep Moving
My mom’s 22-mile walk Last Saturday, my mom walked 22 miles with her friends as part of an annual event at her gym called Day of Endurance. I’m beyond impressed with her and her friends, both for the walk itself and for the months of training they did to prepare for it! So I wanted…
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Where’s Home To You?
Mine’s very specific. BOOSTED. Fun fact! This story got boosted over on Medium as part of Medium’s Boost Program, which as far as I can tell is when a human Booster reviews a story, likes it, and sends it rocketing up into space via the algorithm. Check it out here. The table is still going…
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Bon Voyage To My Lovely Clan
Three of my favorite people are moving away Arriving to my sister’s apartment, I always knock on the door and then open it without waiting for an answer, and it is always unlocked. My sister and her husband, having known I was on my way over, shout hello from wherever they are in the house.…
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The Story My Mother-In-Law Tells On Repeat
What Alzheimer’s Took From Her – And What It Left Fuheis, Jordan-October 2020 At home in Fuheis, on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan, my mother-in-law “Auntie Rula” paces through the dimly lit rooms. In the living room: a loop around the coffee table, stepping carefully over her husband’s feet while he sits on the couch…
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I Wish My Mother-In-Law Knew My Name
But Her Alzheimer’s Is Too Advanced Fuheis, Jordan – October 2020 Yesterday I took Auntie Rula for a walk around sunset time. There were little bits of pale yellow cloud swimming easily in the sky, lit up by the setting sun behind the old cement factory. We wandered up and down the steep, unyielding hills…
Curious Georgie 
–مرحبا سلام Thank you so much, what a lovely comment to receive! I think you’re right; we can’t always be…