Someone to Watch Over Us

Without care, love doesn’t have a pair of hands. 

And without care workers, families, elders, and millennials will be trapped in a terrible state of need. Someone to Watch over Us is my story of care—with my reluctant mom, and with other people’s parents, a Holocaust survivor, a 1960s activist, a financial maverick. 

It’s a second career—I was a tech executive before I leapt into a world of low wages, rampant injury, and social ridicule. It’s also an insider story from the 3 million people, mostly women, who we are all depending on. 

I found joy, loss, need, abandonment, resilience, and a nation that isn’t quite getting it. I’m still caring, and I believe there’s a path to accessible care for all of us. There has to be.

Meanwhile I’ve been writing, and themes of aging and independence abound.  Excerpts of Someone to Watch over Us have appeared in Quarter after Eight, StoryNews.net, and Caregiver Space, and the project has earned a national award from the Barbara Deming Fund, as well as a state grant.