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Edith Brown |
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 Edith Brown, a native of Washington DC, currently lives in Maryland where she volunteers for the American Cancer Society. She also started a Parkinson Support Group which she ran for five years. Edith has won various awards for the excellent care she provided her mother.
At the time the best place for him was a Jewish assisted-living facility, or so she thought. It soon became clear he belonged home with her...
I had just come home from having a painful medical procedure when the phone rang. To my astonishment, it was a woman from a local radio station telling me I just won tickets...
Confronting One's Childhood Abuse as an Adult
Something has tormented my soul for many a year. I tried to live by the adage that what happens in the family stays in the family...
My Breast Cancer Scare
I am a woman. I am a proud Jewish woman. In every group of people there seems to be a genetic disposition to be the carrier of some gene or another that can be fatal. Breast cancer chose to make the Jewish woman its popular choice. But don't get me wrong-...
Hitting Middle Age
But nothing could stop my body from progressing on its natural path of womanhood – nothing. After crying for two days straight, I realized I was in perimenopause...
I'm onto a new perspective. What is life without a few wrinkles? And I need to stop listening to those commercials about washing that gray away...
I was always so busy saying "yes" that I forgot to ever ask myself if I wanted to be the chair of a committee, if I had the time to become a "taxi" service, if I was able to volunteer for another fundraiser...
I wanted to be free of the thoughts that kept me in bondage, but I didn't know how to let go. I couldn't talk about it. I was so ashamed...it was my fault Mama passed...
I am a mother. I'm just a different kind of mother. I did not give birth to my child. She was not young in age, but was nevertheless someone who needed to be mothered...
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