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Photos: Mom Sleeps With Someone New Every Night
She's an equal opportunity cuddler. Also, a small birthday wish and a big subscription discount!
Jul 8
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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Photos: Mom Sleeps With Someone New Every Night
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HUGE July Birthday Discount!
I'ma be 68, so you get 68% off!
Jul 1
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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HUGE July Birthday Discount!
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Revealing 25 Surprising & Fun Ways To Grieve After Mom Dies
A post-menopausal orphan's bucket list of sorts.
Jul 1
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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Revealing 25 Surprising & Fun Ways To Grieve After Mom Dies
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June 2025
The Challenge Of Understanding A Life I Can't Remember
I triangulate befores & afters from evidence of a life, but I'm more Yin/Yang than that.
Jun 17
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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The Challenge Of Understanding A Life I Can't Remember
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The Things She Said When She Still Said Things
Ma had no filter, no internal editor way before dementia. If you were within earshot, you were a target...and if you were fat, well, you were a larger…
Jun 10
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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May 2025
I'm Not Mother Theresa
I'm a sober daughter, a work in progress trying to do the next right thing.
May 27
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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I'm Not Mother Theresa
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Finding The Secrets I Kept From Myself
Having blindly rewritten my own history to hide evidence of vulnerability, I don't know who I am. I'm an evidence-based archeological dig of dinosaur…
May 20
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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Finding The Secrets I Kept From Myself
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Surprise! A Mother's Day Post: If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother
An oldie, in honor of my never say die, Ma. Mother's Day, 2009.
May 10
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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Surprise! A Mother's Day Post: If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother
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Presenting a (not particularly) Scientific Argument on the Concept of Wandering Dementia™.
Not to be confused with dementia wandering, an annoyance of a different color entirely.
May 6
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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My Story Is All I Have To Offer
Me. Mom. Dementia. Drinky Drunky Sober Girl. Here I am, doing pretty much the only thing I’m qualified to do because I was a shite waitress.
May 1
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Jodi Sh. Doff
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April 2025
2025: Echo-location - Walking With Ghosts
I walk through that gossamer separation between now and then, time runs parallel rather than linear, to people and places like phantom limbs. Gone, but…
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Apr 29
A Double Life or a House of Mirrors?
Carving Narrative Out of Noise: The Mess, the Message, the Methods. I wasn’t living a double life; I was living lots of lives simultaneously…
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Apr 29
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