A colleague wrote to me recently apologizing for her delay in getting back to me and explained that she had a family emergency she had to take care of. Well of course that would be no problem, I said. I learned later that the emergency was about her mother and that she was thrust into having to care for her. Isn't that the way it so often happens? Rarely do we have the time we need to take care of all the things we need to do when our parent or spouse suddently takes a turn for the wor [...]
