Episode 115: The Fixer

Writer Brandi Neal was twenty-nine years old and living in Maine when she dropped everything and flew to Arizona to help care for her ailing father, a Vietnam War veteran who disappeared from Brandi’s life when she was twelve.  In today’s show, Brandi shares her mixed...

Episode 91: A New Normal

A year ago on the podcast Lisa Howland told of quitting her job to be a full-time caregiver for her father, who has Parkinson’s disease, and of hiding the knives in her house because of his increasingly aggressive behavior — associated with his later diagnosis...

Episode 35: Life, Interrupted

When her father crawled out of a window in the middle of the night, Lisa Howland had to make a thousand calculations at once to coax him back inside her house. What happened next was equally harrowing for this only child of divorced parents, whose father—a retired...