Boomers were the first to struggle en masse with both the financial needs of kids in college and retired parents outliving …
sandwich generation
I’m the turkey in this sandwich
Sometimes life just squeezes you from all sides. On the one there’s the impending birth of my second child, bearing down on me (no pun) (okay, pun) from a rapidly decreasing number of weeks away. On the other there are my parents, one extremely sick, one just old, and both 8,000 miles away. Somewhere in between there’s new responsibility …
Daycare—for my dad
My folks returned to Japan yesterday after three weeks here with their four kids and 10 grandkids in New Jersey. As many of you know, my mom is in the advanced stages of cancer. They made the trip against the advice of her doctors, though her oncologist had finally acquiesced: “You can’t live for your cancer,” he’d said.
One issue we …
