Later years
Caregiving, widowhood, and the house after it empties. · 4 articles
The spare room costs more than the mortgage math says
Keeping a house with two empty bedrooms is defended as cheaper than moving. The arithmetic is closer than most people run it.
May 7, 2026 · 2 min read
The first Christmas with one chair empty
Whether to set the place, whether to say the name, whether to go through with it at all. Three widows, three answers, no verdict.
December 28, 2025 · 4 min read
What a pill organizer knows about a marriage
In households where one spouse manages the other's medication, the manager is the wife in roughly eight cases out of ten. The plastic box with seven lids is the record.
July 26, 2025 · 3 min read
The casseroles arrive in the first nine days
Food after a death comes in a rush and then stops. What a widow actually needs in week six is harder to carry to the door.
January 11, 2025 · 3 min read