Category Archives: Family Relations
With the Members of the Family Chipping in to Look After My Mother-in-Law Together
Leaving the caretaking to the professionals, that way, the elderly gets high-quality care, and the children won’t have so much burden, and can continue to interact in amicable terms with one another as well as the parent in need of … Continue reading
A Time, Shared by Father & Son
How the child in this family, learned to adapt himself to his own father’s handicap, translated… In the ten short minutes I’d gone to his place to pick up something, I saw something that made a deep impression in me: … Continue reading
Give Me Some More of Your Silence
This teenager really knows her/himself well, and s/he just wanted her/his parents, relatives, to give her/him a little extra time to figure things out for her/himself, is that, too much to ask??? Translated… I’m a slacker, found a ton of … Continue reading
The Stinky Tofu & the Love of My Father
Savoring the memories here, translated… Awhile, around the Memorial holidays, I’d gone back home, as I’d arrived to my parents’ house, it was, already, very late, and, there came the hollering of the vendor, selling stinky tofu. “Stinky~~~Tofu!”, that heightened … Continue reading
A Phone Call…
The show of care and concern, that came, JUST at the right time here, translated… I’d never imagined, that a phone call can, fill up a heart that’s originally plagued with fear with warmth, and, earn me some prize money … Continue reading