What I Learned While Cleaning My Mother’s Office

Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #45: Trying New Things

Brilliant and never used — we discovered this set of artist’s pastels in my mother’s office. Photo credit: The author.

My family and I moved my parents from their apartment into an independent living facility.

It was a physically and emotionally draining process, combing through years of accumulated stuff — some sentimental, some not, all of it requiring assessment.