If you had to sum up your relationship with one of your parents in a few words, what would you say?
About Georgia Kreiger
What to Do With a Family Secret?
Sometimes our secret knits us so closely to our family that it comes to define family itself.
Sometimes our secret knits us so closely to our family that it comes to define family itself.
Five Things I Love About My Aging Body
Thank you, my body, for allowing me these pleasures as I age.
Thank you, my body, for allowing me these pleasures as I age.
What Health Experts Get Wrong About Seniors and Solitude
If I learned to like solitude as a child, I learned to love it as an adult.
If I learned to like solitude as a child, I learned to love it as an adult.
Why We May Doubt Our Memories of Childhood Trauma
We have a right, and perhaps an obligation to ourselves, to tell our stories.
We have a right, and perhaps an obligation to ourselves, to tell our stories.
After I Retired, I Hit a ‘Reminisence Bump’ in the Road
Oh, dear. Is this what the onset of dementia is like?
Oh, dear. Is this what the onset of dementia is like?
If Empathy Can Be Taught, It Should Be
Some of the most powerful people in our world condemn it.
Some of the most powerful people in our world condemn it.
Retired Women: Snow Us in, but Don’t Count Us Out
Isn’t retirement, after all, a kind of waiting?
Isn’t retirement, after all, a kind of waiting?
Memories Like Shooting Stars
The past inhabits our minds as a night sky dotted with stars.
The past inhabits our minds as a night sky dotted with stars.
My Hillbilly Parents
Despite all her efforts to purge Daddy of his West Virginia mountain ways, Mother might have been labeled a hillbilly, too.
Despite all her efforts to purge Daddy of his West Virginia mountain ways, Mother might have been labeled a hillbilly, too.
To What Extent Can I Control My Health?
At age 65, I become anxious at the thought of going to a doctor.
At age 65, I become anxious at the thought of going to a doctor.
Family Photographs
Hour after hour, I let them wound me.
Hour after hour, I let them wound me.
Another ‘Bad Mother’ Memoir
"How to Lose Your Mother" reads like a prolonged session between Molly Jong-Fast and her therapist.
“How to Lose Your Mother” reads like a prolonged session between Molly Jong-Fast and her therapist.
Kitchen Table Talk
“No girl is going to trap my son by getting pregnant"
“No girl is going to trap my son by getting pregnant”
Sisters Out of Sync
Meeting someone who is both a stranger and strangely familiar is thrilling.
Meeting someone who is both a stranger and strangely familiar is thrilling.
It Happened to Me; It Happens to Others
Enough people confided in me that I began to suspect that what I had experienced was part of an epidemic.
Enough people confided in me that I began to suspect that what I had experienced was part of an epidemic.