Parents During the Covid Era with Jill Bialosky
Show: So Your Parents Are Old
When a loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the grieving starts years before the end. In The End Is the Beginning, Jill Bialosky tells her mother’s story in reverse. Jill and Vanessa talk about what it means to “eulogize” someone while they’re disappearing, and how writing can be both tribute and survival. You can read Jill’s New York Times essay on losing her mother during the pandemic.
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Lily Houston Smith is our senior producer; music by Mark McAdam and Amber Devereux.
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