Sandwich Generation: What Happens When Your Sandwich Falls Apart?

We all know about the sandwich generation, those of us, usually women, who are caught between the competing needs of aging parents and growing children. For several years, that was me. But what happens when your sandwich falls apart? When in the space of a few traumatic years, both of your parents die and the two oldest of your three children leave for college? If you’re no longer a daughter and barely feel like a mother, who are you?

 

This is the question I find myself asking and, to a degr...