Why Start a Blog?

Who am I? Let’s see, I am a sandwich generation wife, mother, daughter, worker and I live in Calgary, Alberta. I have a husband, Steve, to whom I have been married for almost 34 years and four adult children, David, John, Melissa and James. The three older children are out of the house but James is still living at home. I work as a financial advisor/banker of sorts – it’s rather complicated but that description covers it well enough. Other members of our family are Willow, often referred to as Miss Willikins, my English Springer Spaniel, and Zoe, the cat. While this blog, just now, will sound so much like a bad soap opera, it is what has actually been happening in my life.

I decided I needed to write about the current state of my life so I could document the facts, as I remember them, about diving into live and living at the edge.

I am an only child and my mother, who is almost 87, lives just outside Toronto. Her health is more than slightly precarious at this point in time so decisions need to be made but she is still competent to make choices, but her choices are not the best. She is determined to continue to live at home but she is not safe. More about Mom later.