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Melba Faces Assisted Living
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Young at Heart
By Gordon Osmond
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
~William Thackeray
I was very proud of myself for having persuaded my eighty-two-year-old mother to tour an assisted living facility. I had even found one that was near the home in which she had lived on her own following my father’s death ten years earlier.
My mother was tough. She was the descendant of hearty pioneer stock that had braved the elements before settling in Salt Lake City. And she was the ninth and last child of a polygamous dad and, as such, had been forced to fend for herself in order to get her fair share of the family’s limited resources.
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