dysfunctional families – Lynn Slaughter

When an Elderly Parent Dies

By Lynn Slaughter | July 10, 2019 |

My husband and I are at that age where if parents of our contemporaries haven’t yet passed away, they’re dying now. This past year, our sister-in-law’s parents both died, as did a dear friend’s mother. Saturday night, it was our turn. At age 93, my mother-in-law passed away. It wasn’t entirely unexpected. She’d been in…

Whole Lot of Re-Parenting Going On

By Lynn Slaughter | April 3, 2017 |

I’ve always been suspicious of those couples who have that parent-child thing going on. It makes me nervous

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

By Lynn Slaughter | February 3, 2016 |

In fiction writing, we have something called the “unreliable narrator”—a story-teller that we eventually discover can’t be counted on for objective accuracy or full disclosure. We readers often end up surprised by what the “truth” is. “Truth,” however, is a slippery concept. There is a sense in which all of us are unreliable narrators. The…