The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

"I'm greeted at the door by a silver-eyed woman roughly my own age, maybe a few years older.She stands tall and straight as an exclamation point, in bootleg jeans and a form-fitting cotton work shirt. She's coaxed her flaxen hair into an efficient bun at the back of her head." pg. 3

"I like this woman. She's tough. Forgiving. The kind that sticks it out when the going gets rough." pg. 3

"Tonight, we will have luxury, tonight, we will have opulence - wooden hangars and a minifridge!" pg. 199

"Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible."  pg. 236 

I know how this feels.



Evison, Jonathan. (2012). The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving. New York, New York: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.