Amy Brick·Oct 5Dealing (or not dealing) with our parent’s lives and decisions.The sisters had tried to start to go thru the house. Dad wasn’t a “Hoarder”, but he had never really addressed a lot of items that had…
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·Sep 12I Called It On The Delivery Truck. I Did Not Call The Part Where I Negotiated.The new washer and fridge finally showed up at my mother’s house. What arrived instead of closure was two of everything, the wrong cables…
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·Sep 9She Thinks the Delivery Guy Will Just Swap It Out. He Won’t.Loving a parent whose hoarding has quietly made her own house impossible to fix anything in — and what actually helps when logic doesn’t.
InMy Roots Run DeepbyAthena·Aug 17Everything I Had to Teach Myself Because My Mom Was a HoarderThere’s a specific kind of education you get from growing up in a house that keeps everything and lets go of almost nothing — and most of…
Diandra Manop.poet·Jul 2Very highly out of sight out of mind, but also slightly a hoarderI forget things very easily. Highly out of sight out of mind. No, it’s not a mindset, that’s just how my brain works. Maybe that’s also why…
