Brother Shad’s Dandelions: A Nursing Home Resident Struggles With Retirement Issues

Brother Shad’s Dandelions, an historical fiction story, portrays an elderly widower beset with multiple old-age problems as he endures living in and adjusting to the City Center Retirement Home regulations. He uproots dandelions on his daily sidewalk excursions around the grounds in order to relieve the stress of experiencing the closure of his international pulpit ministry. Aunt Matti, a long-time ministerial friend and a widow, takes on the difficult task as major caregiver for her aging friend. Therein, she is able to give assistance beyond what the nursing and counseling staff can provide. Brother Shad’s deteriorating mental alertness and declining physical capabilities, observed throughout her daily visits, severely test Aunt Matti’s ingenuity, resourcefulness and communication skills.