A Trip Down Memory Lane

Revisiting Old Familiar Places with Mom Became a Farewell Tour

Jeannette Sanderson
The Memoirist
Published in
7 min readMay 22, 2023

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Mom in front of the Advent School (Photo by author)

My husband and I drove up to New Hampshire to spend the weekend with my mother. After lunch with my brother and his family, we talked about how we should spend our day together. I wanted to give my mother everything, but I didn’t want to take too much from her, and I knew she didn’t have the strength and stamina she’d…

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Jeannette Sanderson
The Memoirist

I read, write, and run in the beautiful Hudson Valley, where I live with my husband and our rescue pup, Magnolia.