by Jana Panarites | Apr 8, 2016 | Podcasts |
Author Judith Henry was living in Los Angeles when she noticed a pattern emerging in her weekly phone calls with her parents, who lived in Florida: her mother’s voice was getting weaker while her father’s was getting louder. In today’s episode, Judith shares...
by Jana Panarites | Dec 17, 2015 | Podcasts |
German-born Marion Brunken didn’t know any English when she came to the US in the late 1990s after winning a green card lottery that gave her permanent residency status. Now fluent in the ways and language of America, Marion is the executive director of a...
by Jana Panarites | Oct 1, 2015 | Podcasts |
Journalist Desa Philadelphia grew up in Guyana, in a multigenerational household. The set-up was common in her country, but being a teenager wasn’t fun for her with a meddlesome grandmother in the mix. Now living in Los Angeles, married and mother to a 5-year old,...
by Jana Panarites | Jul 9, 2015 | Podcasts |
Lisa Saunders realized something wasn’t right with her parents when they got lost on a road trip near her hometown in Northern Virginia. She flew up from Florida to check in on them, and soon got a crash course in long-distance caregiving. In the intense months that...