Emerging from 10+ years of my parents' Alzheimer's and FTD while mothering two young children. Reflections on 'sandwiched' caregiving, dementia, grief and navigating the UK's social care system.
Emerging from 10+ years of my parents' Alzheimer's and FTD while mothering two young children. Reflections on sandwiched caregiving, dementia, grief and navigating the UK's social care system. I write about what happens.
I am an incurable memoir addict. I love reading it, teaching it, and writing it. Here you will find stories from a life, but you will also learn how to write it, and how memoir can be transformative beyond the page.
I write about the moments that make up our extraordinary lives, especially related to creativity, relationships, sobriety, motherhood, grief and joy. I like hearing other's experiences too, so we can connect through a sense of our shared humanity
Ian Leslie picks out the most important, interesting and beautiful signals from the noise.
Top 40 in Parenting: Asking and attempting to answer various flavours of this question as I rattle roughshod over the peaks and troughs of post-analysis, perimenopausal midlife from home in Glasgow, Scotland