Nancy Ford-Young | The Sun Magazine

Nancy Ford-Young

Nancy Ford-Young lives in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband and three children. She’s been a yoga teacher for fifteen years.

— From December 1986
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Minnie: Rest In Peace, Mom

In the second week of hospitalization my mother’s denial abruptly stops. I see a deliberate motion away from life, an about-face toward death, with a new-found dignity and acceptance.

December 1986
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