I lost my mother to early onset Alzheimer’s disease when she was 59.
I never wanted to be the grief girl but I lost my mom to Alzheimer’s. I’ve been a writer since I was 9 years old. In fourth grace language arts class, I soaked up sentence diagramming and essay structure like it was manna from heaven. Words and language became my currency, and crafting fictional short…
When I look back at my thirty-three years of life, at first glance it seems as though everything I’ve ever wanted has been granted to me: my marriage, my children, my home, my career, and even my friendships. Yet none of these deepest desires of my heart came without a period of waiting and struggle…
Guess what? Christmas is not actually about you. I was asked on a radio interview what my favorite Christmas memory is from my childhood. I told the hosts about spending every Christmas Eve with my maternal grandparents, either at our home or theirs. We always used my grandma’s mother’s handmade holiday tablecloth for our big…
Mother’s Day is filled with grief and hope for me. One Mother’s Day weekend, our family went fishing with my in laws and maternal grandmother on the Texas coast. Mother’s Day is a difficult time for my grandma and myself, since losing my mom to early onset Alzheimer’s disease. We thought that the trip would…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2017 For more information, contact: Lauren Flake [email protected] Lauren Flake releases second book Where Did My Sweet Grandpa Go?: A Preschooler’s Guide to Losing a Loved One. Lauren Flake, the Buda woman who helped to raise over $145,000 for Hays County flood recovery with sales of her “Texas Strong” t-shirts…
