The Misadventures of Widowhood

  In this post, Jean chronicles a week filled with medical busy work, sleep apnea victories, and the long, bureaucratic march toward startin...

Jean has a talent for taking the small, ridiculous indignities of aging and turning them into stories that make people laugh, nod, and mutte...

Jean has always believed that memory has a mischievous streak — especially the kind triggered by music. One moment she’s driving to the gro...

  In her ongoing chronicle of life inside a Continuum Care Community, Jean returns to Memorial Day with equal parts honesty, humor, and hard...

Jean didn’t plan on writing about dreams, grief, or the strange places the mind wanders at night. But then she woke up crying—something she...