by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 15, 2018 | Living in Place
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant is New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast’s graphic memoir about caring for her elderly parents as they resisted the help that they needed and that their middle-aged daughter was at initially clueless to provide. Providing that...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 8, 2018 | Living in Place
LESSONS IN GRIEF While my Dad was alive and in decline, I grieved for the man he used to be. He mostly accepted his limitations, while I was often irritated by them. Now I wish I’d acknowledged how plucky he was in his old age, even as his hearing diminished, his...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Aug 1, 2018 | Living in Place
MOURNING FOG My father died almost two weeks ago, and I’ve been wandering around in a Mourning Fog ever since. Even though Dad’s death was expected, and even though I’d suffered innumerable bouts of anticipatory grief as Dad has declined these past few years, being...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 25, 2018 | Living in Place
Even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer and never plan to write for publication, chances are you will someday have to write an obituary for someone you’ve loved and lost. I know this, because last week I wrote an obit for my dad. Six years earlier, I wrote one...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 23, 2018 | Living in Place
Bernard Luskin died peacefully in the Hospice Suite at Grace Cottage Hospital on July 19, four days short of his ninety-third birthday. He was the son of Jacob Luskin, who emigrated from Russia to New York in 1914, and Dvorah Leah (Farberova) Luskin, who arrived in...
