I’m thrilled for my story of caregiving and the need for a better plan for caring for our elders to be featured in the Summer 2024 issue of 3rd Act: Aging with Confidence, a Pacific NW periodical. The article was underwritten by AARP Washington and BECU. You can read the story here, on page 48.
Family Caregivers: Holding Up the Sky
Guest commentary for National Family Caregivers Month published in the The Chronicle, Lewis County, Washington, November 2023. “Family caregivers are holding up the sky for everyone else. Let’s do the numbers. According to A Place for Mom, in 2020, 41.8 million Americans provided unpaid care to an adult over the age of 50. . . ” Continue reading here.
What a joy to talk with Mary Lucas and Jason Kong about aging and caregiving and Mother Lode. Mary works for Transitions Life Care in North Carolina’s Triangle, where I came from. She interviewed me for the Aging Matters radio show. Have a listen here.
I am honored to be published in the Canadian journal “Sage-ing: The Journal of Creative Aging,” #45/Summer 2023.
Can’t we find a better word for “retirement”? What does it even mean? It doesn’t fit me, for sure. I didn’t have a career to leave, or age out of. And I’m not tired, not yet! I’m going with “restory-ing.”
“My north star as I became an adult was conflicted. I grew up in the fifties and sixties with my mother’s gender-typical role model, along with those I saw in Father Knows Best, Donna Reed and Leave It to Beaver. But as I came of age I also witnessed Marlo Thomas’s “working girl” Ann Marie in That Girl, along with Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and bra burning. . . .” Read my story here: Restorying a Life, Sage-ing Magazine.
I had so much fun talking Mother Lode, caregiving, memoir writing, and publishing with Linda Joy Myers, founder and president of the National Association of Memoir Writers. If you missed the live event, you can watch it on Vimeo here, or at https://www.namw.org/2023/07/august-virtual-book-club-3/.
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Sally J. Fox on her podcast “Engaging Presence.” Sally has conversations with creative changemakers who are shaping their new stories about today’s rapidly changing world as they discover how to live a more joyful and authentic life. We talked about caregiving and aging and writing. I hope you enjoy it! Listen here. You can subscribe to “Engaging Presence” on iTunes.
I loved talking family caregiving and authoring a debut book in the time the host calls “life’s sweetest third.” Watch my interview with Julia Brewer Daily, award-winning author and named Best Woman Host by the American Writing Awards, on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast station. Link to YouTube.
I had so much fun talking about caregiving and my memoir with Micheal Pope and Life Is a Sacred Journey. It’s just thirty lively minutes. I hope you enjoy it too. View it on YouTube here.
Mother Lode and I are the subject of a feature article in my local paper. “Locally world famous,” my father would say.
“In Mother Lode, Staebler unpacks the peaks and valleys that come along with caregiving, particularly for a parent in one’s childhood home. Since her mother Stellajoe Staebler . . . died, she has become a caregiver ally, extending a metaphorical lifeline to those trudging similar paths.”
Read the story here.
I had the pleasure of talking with Laura Vaillancourt, elder care counselor, about my experience with caregiving. We discussed how I remained sane(-ish), writing, leaving home and finding home. I hope you enjoy the podcast!
https://www.lifeonrepeatpodcast.com/episode/mother-lode
Watch a video clip here!
Enjoy a reading of some scenes from life with Mama that were cut from Mother Lode. (From the 2022 book launch.) https://tinyurl.com/Deleted-scenes