Tag Archives: Role Reversals
When Mom Comes for a Visit
What will she bring this time, I wonder, translated… Time Flew Quickly by, I’d No Longer Needed, to Sit at My Desk, Pretending I was, Working on Homework, and, Actually, that Daughter Who’s, Hidden a Novel Beneath the Test Prep … Continue reading
The Daughter Who Felt Defeated by Her Mother Who’d Used Verbal Insults to Teach Her
The daughter is still the one, seeking out advice here, a Q&A, translated… Q: Wanted to Help Her Mother, But She Doesn’t Know Where to Start… In these couple of years, the images of “mother” and “daughter” kept getting redefined … Continue reading
When Mom Calls Me “Mom”, I’d, Immediately Taken Her into My Arms
With a demented elderly at home, translated… As I was growing up, I was asked by my school instructor to write about “My Family”, “Home Sweet Home”, and similar subjects, but, as I wrote on, my essays usually turned into … Continue reading
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Tagged Progressions of Dementia, Role Reversals
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When I’d Become Your Parent, and You, My Child…
How’d that happen, I wonder??? This would be, a SERIOUS case of ROLE reversal that we’re, currently, experiencing here (kinda like how those television stations froze, with the message of “We’re experiencing some technical difficulties”??? Yeah, it’s, kinda, like that!) … Continue reading
Life, the Obstacle Course 