“The fact that they would dirty their own nest, as it were, is peculiar to me and suggests a level of mental illness or sickness,” said a mental health expert.
Man cracks after years of caring for elderly, ailing parents. My question is, why didn’t he put his father in an elder-care home instead of growing increasingly frustrated and angry?
Memoirist Nien Cheng wrote a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China and her years of imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Red Guards.
Last Writes is the sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent extension of reporter Kimberly Matas' Life Stories series, which chronicles the lives of recently deceased Tucsonans.
About Kim Matas
Kim has been getting paid to write since she was 16 and a freelance high school correspondent for the Phoenix Gazette. More than 25 years later, she's still at it. No one knows why.
Email: kmatas@azstarnet.com