In the 1980s, Janice rerouted her journalism career in Detroit to freelancing in the suburbs in order to embrace full-time mothering her three boys. Wasn’t easy. And she did it with grace and creativity.
In the 2010s, Brandon—one of those boys—rerouted from a career in publishing in New York City to freelancing in suburban Michigan in order to embrace the full-time caregiving Janice’s Parkinson’s diagnoses was revealing itself to require. Wasn’t easy. Grace—there were certainly moments. Between bouts of denial and incomprehension of what caring would require of him. But, absolutely, he brought that creativity he’d been raised in to this new leg of their journey.
A mother/son team writing from either side of disability and caregiving.
And encouraging other carepartners to.