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Dancing in the Wind
When a family of the "sandwich generation" decides it's time to send 92-year-old Granny to a retirement home, "for her own good," of course, feisty Martha Sidony fights back.
In frustration, she tells her brood, "I'm neither incompetent nor incontinent, and I can take care of myself." But the younger family members don't understand her eccentricities of dancing in the wind, hoarding telephones, and driving on the high side of the road.
While they send her belongings to Goodwill, often over her objections, Martha finds an old box that yields case studies from forty years of her teaching on two continents. She fights for her independence using techniques that worked on her students of long ago. She will lobby for some choice in the matter of her future, and gains unlikely allies in her campaign to stay free.
Can she hold out long enough to stave off the problems of her great-granddaughter? Sooner than anyone believes, it will be time for Gran's last stand, when she feels she must step in to save others.
In frustration, she tells her brood, "I'm neither incompetent nor incontinent, and I can take care of myself." But the younger family members don't understand her eccentricities of dancing in the wind, hoarding telephones, and driving on the high side of the road.
While they send her belongings to Goodwill, often over her objections, Martha finds an old box that yields case studies from forty years of her teaching on two continents. She fights for her independence using techniques that worked on her students of long ago. She will lobby for some choice in the matter of her future, and gains unlikely allies in her campaign to stay free.
Can she hold out long enough to stave off the problems of her great-granddaughter? Sooner than anyone believes, it will be time for Gran's last stand, when she feels she must step in to save others.
251 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2011
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November 12, 2022
This book really hit home because I have a Mother currently in Memory Care. So much of the emotions 'Martha' and her family are experiencing we have gone through. I love the way the author weaves remembrances from Martha's days of being a teacher into her current situation and how many lessons she imparted then, can still be put to use today. This is a very heartfelt book with some very tender moments. Loved it!
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