Hope and happiness
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched It’s been three weeks since my mom’s funeral, and I’m surprised that most of my memories of the day are happy ones. This was completely unexpected,…
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Most people are good
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched It’s easy to feel like so many people are just, well … evil. Especially with what is being done to the poor people of Ukraine and…
Lost
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched Dear Readers, I’m sad to say that I am no longer a member of the sandwich generation. My mother passed away peacefully on Monday, April 4….
I just want to see my mama!
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched All righty, this week we’re back to a Sandwich Generation topic. I’m sharing my frustration about the forces that have kept me from my mama these…
This neighborhood has lost its Princess
By AMY SHANKLAND Sandwiched I’ve wanted to write this column for a few weeks, but I needed to make certain I wouldn’t become a sobbing, sliding down-to-the-floor mess as I…
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…
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…