Can you spell irony?

As a member of the sandwich generation, with a mother living alone, heating with wood, and a little teetery, and a daughter who has not quite figured out her life path financially speaking -- she’s working on it -- I appreciated this story from Joan  up in Berlin at the Family Caregiver’s Conference.  Her aging Dad lives far away in Florida -- with two of her siblings living nearby in that warm place.  But Joan, a long-distance caregiver -- calls Dad every day just to check in and check up.

So one day she gets a call from a Florida sibling, “Joan, do you know where Dad is? We can’t seem to find him.”