Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
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Gretchen Staebler. (2022). Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver. She Writes Press.

Gretchen Staebler. 2022. Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver. She Writes Press.

Gretchen Staebler, Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver. She Writes Press, 2022.

Gretchen Staebler. Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver. She Writes Press, 2022.

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   • bioText: Gretchen Staebler is a wandering adventurer who left decades of grown-up life on the East Coast at age sixty to return to the mountains, beaches, and rain of her soul's home in the Pacific Northwest. She blogs about her adventures from coffee shops, her father's desk, national park lodges, her tent—wherever she feels cozy. She lives with her cat in Centralia, Washington (the real one).
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". . . makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you." —Readers' Favorite
At the age of sixty, Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubbornly independent ninety-six-year-old mother—sort of a middle-aged gap year. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will return to her own independent life.
It doesn't go as planned.
Rather than a retrospective, this mother-daughter story unfolds in real time with gripping honesty, bringing the reader along with the narrator through the struggle, doubts, and complexities of caregiving and daughterhood—and the beacons of light.
Penetrating the fog of her mother's advancing dementia and myriad health issues with humor, frustration, and compassion—and wine—Staebler slowly comes to accept and respect the mother she got, if not the one she wished for. In the process, she manifests non-negotiable self-care and learns more than she wants to know about aging, cognitive loss, and the healthcare system.
Any reader who is looking for a road map in caring for a family member, has ever had a mother, or is looking aging in the eye will find company on the journey in this candid, multi-award-winning memoir.

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". . . makes you feel as though a kindred soul is speaking to you." —Readers' Favorite
At the age of sixty, Gretchen Staebler promises to spend one year in her childhood home caring for her stubbornly independent ninety-six-year-old mother—sort of a middle-aged gap year. Then her mother will move to assisted living and she will return to her own independent life.
It doesn't go as planned.
Rather than a retrospective, this mother-daughter story unfolds in real time with gripping honesty, bringing the reader along with the narrator through the struggle, doubts, and complexities of caregiving and daughterhood—and the beacons of light.
Penetrating the fog of her mother's advancing dementia and myriad health issues with humor, frustration, and compassion—and wine—Staebler slowly comes to accept and respect the mother she got, if not the one she wished for. In the process, she manifests non-negotiable self-care and learns more than...

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