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Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onNovember 27, 2017December 1, 2017  |  3 Comments

On a January morning of this year, the body of a woman in her sixties was found floating in the river several yards from my door. She was discovered by two men who had been working for several hours on righting my houseboat, which had Read More …

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Where Are We Now?

Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onOctober 23, 2017October 19, 2017  |  1 Comment

When my mother was in her mid-nineties, she began asking a lot of scientific questions: Why is the sky blue? What’s inside of a cloud? How does that crow over there pecking at a MacDonald’s French fry dropped on the side of the road recognize Read More …

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When We Were Two

Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onSeptember 25, 2017September 24, 2017  |  7 Comments

My mother and I stood in line behind the third oldish-daughter-with-old-mother unit I’d seen since entering the grocery store. The mother ahead of us was tall, late 80s, thin and weak looking but sharp-eyed. She turned to give appraising glances at the weary, preoccupied string Read More …

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Grandmas

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AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onAugust 14, 2017August 12, 2017  |  2 Comments

All morning I’ve been sitting in my kitchen contemplating a switch  from my life as a writer to a more secure life of crime. I decided to Google around to see what sort of lucrative criminal trouble old women can get into and found headlines that Read More …

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The Vocabulary of Erasure

Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onJuly 31, 2017July 31, 2017  |  11 Comments

I’ve known about ageism for a long time, but I received my first real shock about its pervasiveness in the office of one of Portland’s top-rated gerontologists. I was accompanying my mother, Alice, who was ninety-four at the time, to her first appointment. The doctor Read More …

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The Ages of Grief

Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onJuly 17, 2017July 20, 2017  |  14 Comments

We were four children: Bruce, Michael, Andrea, and Marla, but when I was thirteen, Bruce, the oldest, died by suicide in the basement of our house in Minnesota. He was nineteen. My sister died in an institution at the age of twenty-seven. After many years Read More …

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Life in the Family Museum

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AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onJuly 3, 2017July 15, 2017  |  11 Comments

What shall I do with the scarred dresser that crossed the sea in steerage with my great-grandparents in the late 1870s? Josephine, an impoverished girl from Oslo and pregnant, made the journey with her arms crossed tightly around her belly as the baby tumbled around Read More …

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Ready for My Crackpot Close-Up

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AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onJune 19, 2017July 15, 2017  |  1 Comment

At last I have a starring role. A movie came out last year with Sally Field playing me and now I see it’s streaming on Amazon. An even wider audience! I’m thrilled. You’ve caught me in countless other movies but in minor parts: the old Read More …

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The Sweetie Boat

Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onJune 9, 2017July 15, 2017  |  18 Comments

One day Liza, who has cut my hair for twenty years, stopped using my name and started calling me Sweetie all the time. Nothing had changed except that the two faces in the mirror before us had gotten older. She was approaching her mid-forties when Read More …

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A Wide View from a Far Shore

Category: There was an Old Woman
AuthorAndrea Carlisle  |Posted onMay 22, 2017July 15, 2017  |  12 Comments

When you’re old and you happen to speak the words “I’m old,” out loud, many people are quick to disagree. “You’re not old!” they insist, a signal of their feelings, known or buried, that being old is not a good thing. To them, old is Read More …

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