Without care, love doesn’t have a pair of hands. 

And without care workers, families, elders, and millennials will be trapped in a terrible state of need. My project-in-progress is The Care We Care to Give—a memoir in essays about caring for my reluctant mom and other people’s parents, a Holocaust survivor, a 1960s activist, a financial maverick. 

But it’s also about care in the wider sense. Care as the force that helps one generation create another, care as the force that makes schools, courts, fire departments, parks. 

Excerpts of The Care We Care to Give  have appeared in Quarter after Eight, StoryNews.net, and Caregiver Space, and the project has earned a national award from the Barbara Deming Fund, as well as a state grant.

Stay tuned.