Welcome to the Departure Lounge: Adventures in Mothering Mother (Hardcover) by Meg Federico

from Twink

Meg Federico is a successful journalist, often writing humor pieces for the National Post. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada and her mother lived in New Jersey. As her mother ages, Federico worries.. " Watching my mother for the past few years had been a lot like watching a blindfolded lady ride a...

from whitreidtan

In this non-fiction account of taking care of her aging mother, Meg Federico has tapped into an experience that more and more people are facing. Over a ten year span of time, Federico faced the nuttiness, the anxiety, the exhaustion, and the sheer terror and heart-break of finally having to paren...

from hammockqueen

this book started very well. It was funny and clever, but then I found myself very angry at the parents who were wasting all their money on 'helpers'. Their 'kids' were running to help them when they clearly weren't going to take help. Meanwhile, the 'help' were stealing and over-charging and enj...