A memoir in poetry, “Yesterday’s Water: A Caregiver’s Poem Journal” by Sally Hubbard, is now available. She will have a book signing 6–8 p.m., today (Friday), June 5, at the Blue Chair.
“Yesterday’s Water” is Hubbard’s journal of caring for her husband, Charles, during his last 18 months. She said she wrote it for people who are caring for chronically or terminally ill loved ones.
It is “testimony that feeling numb, or disgusted, or abandoned, or inadequate, or lost, is understandable and acceptable,” Hubbard said. “That we sometimes have to grieve the loss of a person while he or she still lives; that life continues after the death of a loved one.”
Hubbard is a former associate editor of Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 at Rice University in Houston, a lifelong singer and occasional poet (her muse only speaks during the hard times, she said). She and Charles retired initially to the Four Corners area following an interest in Southwest Anasazi archaeology. In 2005, they moved to Sewanee, Hubbard’s hometown.
Copies of the book ($15) will be available at the signing. Hubbard will also have copies of her first book, Uganda Impressions, available.
“Yesterday’s Water” is available at the Folks at Home office, 141 University Ave., Sewanee. Profits will benefit Folks at Home (F@H), a local nonprofit organization developed for and dedicated to assisting its members in continuing a dignified and comfortable lifestyle in the community through coordination of services they need during their elder years.
For more information contact F@H at 598-0303 or email <folksathomesewanee@gmail.com>.
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