Helping children with “adulting”
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched I don’t often write about the other piece of “bread” in the sandwich generation – children. As a reminder, the definition of a sandwich generation member…
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Basement memories
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched As we sat in our basement last Sunday morning around 3:30 a.m. thanks to tornado warnings, I couldn’t help remembering another basement from long ago. My…
Role reversal
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched When someone asks me what is the hardest part of being in the sandwich generation, I immediately reply “the role reversal.” After decades of your mother…
Sometimes you just need a dose of cuteness
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched I had the amazing foresight to take last Monday off, which happened to be a mostly sunny, almost 60-degree day. I planned to visit my mother…
Don’t hesitate to celebrate
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched It just hit me that my mother will be 90 in three months. I mentioned this to my husband John and he asked what my siblings…
Filling in the blanks
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched I finally got to see my mama Wednesday morning! With my husband and I both having COVID-19 in January, it had been a month since I’d…
Food is medicine
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched “Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates I started out 2022 with a New Year’s Day brunch with Our Gang,…
The kindness of others, Mom, and a squeaky nose
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched Every once in a while, a columnist like myself writes a piece that is filled with odds and ends. We just have one of those weeks…
Don’t stop those tears
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched About 10 days ago, while my husband John was away working in Kentucky, I sat on the floor with one of our cats in my lap…
Donate blood if you can
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched With all the trouble in the world right now, I’ve been feeling like I really need to help others. Normally I give back through volunteering at…