Word After Word

Caring about aging parents is very like writing a book.

I am enrolled in a graduate level seminar and I haven’t completed the prerequisites for it. It’s titled: Aging Parents. There are no texts, there’s no teacher, and every single part of it is a grey area.  It’s impossible to feel certain: here’s a good step! Yes, I’ll close these accounts. Even little steps, like “I’ll fax this doctor” are much more time-consuming than they “should” be and will they bring results? No way to know.  It’s all a grey area and I am turning grey.

Hard, hard, hard.

And so exactly like writing a book I can’t even get over it. You just never really know if you are doing it right, if it is going to matter, if anyone in the entire story is going to be happy. It’s just really a very grey area.