Articles by Amy Shankland

Sandwiched I know I write about one side of my sandwich generation more than the other in this column – my mother. But today I’ll focus on the family that…

Sandwiched I didn’t realize that one of the changes you experience in life while in the sandwich generation is the need to dress differently. Let me explain. A week ago…

Sandwiched While sitting in an important Lilly Endowment grant application meeting on Wednesday morning, January 22, my phone vibrated with a text message. Glancing down, I nearly gasped – it…

Sandwiched As you could tell from last week’s column, I recently hit a low point on my sandwich generation journey. I also got sucker punched with some other news that…

Sandwiched One of the worst things that can happen to a member of the sandwich generation is to get injured or sick. I haven’t dealt with the latter in a…

Sandwiched I’ve said for years that I’m a tea lover in a coffee drinker’s world. Imagine my delight last Christmas when my son’s girlfriend Maddie gave me a present of…

Sandwiched I don’t know about you, but I really got into the holiday spirit last month. Christmas carols went through my head during every waking hour. I watched more Christmas…

Sandwiched There’s been a term that has exploded on the Internet over the past few years – the “mental load.” If you happened to miss what millions of people have…

Sandwiched My younger son, Jacob, battled stomach flu last week. This is the kid who NEVER gets sick. In fact, we imagined that he would receive an award next spring…