No one wants to face this problem until they have to, but most of us must one day face the loss of our mother and father. Fred Hill discusses this difficult but very timely issue. The author shares his own recent experience, along with his wife Barbara in the difficult process of providing home-care for two parents, dying simultaneously. He searches for meaning throughout the challenging experience and takes the reader along on a journey that leads finally to understanding and redemption. The author addresses serious issues, such as aging and grief, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Practicalities are discussed, including matters regarding Living Wills, Medicare, hospice, and nursing home considerations. But the author also adds words of comfort, compassion, and even humor that helped him along the way. Hill shares the selected reflections of poets and songwriters, spiritual leaders, anthropologists and others that also helped him to understand and cope with this crisis. He strives to remain frank about the facts and honest about the emotions he experienced, while preserving the upbeat and inspiring tone of the story. "Yes, it was a difficult-experience. But I found that I could do it, and-in-the end I was very glad I did. If I had not been there for my parents, I would have missed a lot." The author found both trials and rewards from caring for his parents, long time Charleston, IN residents. He celebrates Bill and Kathy Hills lives together and struggles to address their suffering. He also challenges others of his generation to consider acting as caregivers for their aging parents when the need arises.

Outrunning Your Shadow : Caring For Dying Parents

Parenting & Relationships

HILL, FRED

Family Relationships

Vanmeter Pub

<p>McDaniel sets an ambitious pace in the arena of historical fiction with this first volume of a projected four-book series following the colorful and curious life of Aindreas Rivers. The little guy who gets jostled and pushed around by great events as he struggles to survive, Aindreas is a heroic underdog, with a generous heart. A 13-year-old Irish-Catholic boy living in gaudy and grubby Louisville, Ky., in 1855, a city where being Irish, Catholic, German or black usually means trouble. Aindreas is a messenger for a furniture manufacturer. Inquisitive and alert, he learns much and meets the high and lowbrows of city society, but he especially likes to hang around on the river front watching the steamboats on the mighty Ohio River. Described with homespun simplicity, Aindreas’s life is filled with wonder, uncertainty, responsibility and fear; he works hard to help support his impoverished family as his mother slowly dies from cancer. To make matters worse, the River! s are about to be evicted by their wealthy landlord, and Louisville is on the verge of racial, religious and ethnic anarchy as election day approaches and the Know-Nothing Party arms mobs of drunken thugs to intimidate voters. Aindreas’s beloved best friend, a middle-aged black slave named Isaac, is to be sold down the river, his family torn apart on the auction block, and Aindreas vows to find a way to help him. Aindreas is also cursed with seizures that scare him half to death, but these frightening episodes allow him to meet the mysterious Mr. Knight, who offers wise counsel. When Louisville explodes into violence, Aindreas acts to save Isaac and his family, and his family, and his Irish and German friends from danger. Making no pretense at sophistication, this is a well-crafted, exciting and heartwarming tale of a boy’s courage and innocence, somehow existing in a bleak society rife with corruption, bigotry and injustice. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</p>

Aindreas: The Messenger, Louisville, Kentucky 1855 (Aindreas, 1)

Literature & Fiction

McDaniel, Gerald

Contemporary

Aindreas: The Messenger, Louisville, Kentucky 1855 (Aindreas Rivers Saga)

<p>From the Galt House fire early on a January morning in 1865 until the day the Civil War ends, twenty-three-year old Aindreas Rivers is haunted by memories of the Battle of Perryville. His ambition and idealism are at odds with the menial tasks of writing about social events and funerals at a newspaper with southern sympathies. Captivated by both the striking and dangerous Lorelei Sharpe, a minister’s daughter, and the wondrous and healing Sarah White with whom a shared life is untenable, Aindreas suffers personal defeat and pain. In the last month of the war, beginning with the execution of the marauder, Sue Mundy, Aindreas’ sense of order collapses. He cannot hold on to those he most loves, commits violence against his own brother, loses his job, and narrowly escapes arrest and criminal charges. His lack of commitment had blinded him, and he resolves to find his vision again, no matter how far and how long his odyssey might take him.</p>

Aindreas: The Scribe 1865

Billie's Ghost

Hautmann, Chad

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