About

Maureen O’Hern is an unreformed English major, so naturally she harbors a secret (until now) desire to be a writer. She is a long-time single parent, a former caregiver, a one-time teacher, a grandma, a lousy cook, a good baker, a rusty pianist, a botanical artist, a gardener who has been known to kill mint. She is writing a book about her caregiving experience and has learned that the subject of caregiving is deeper and wider than she’d realized. In searching for words to tell about caregiving, she has found words about other things and about herself; remnants, fragments, shards — oddments all — lie about in memory and in the daily, inviting a closer eye and slyly suggesting paragraphs of their own on the way to this book.