Mary Lou Falcone, Jessi Gold and Maddie Norris come to Tucson with stories about their experience as caregivers ... for better and for worse. As fulfilling as the time may be, caregivers must learn to take care of themselves, too.
Mary Lou Falcone, author of "I Didn't See It Coming: Scenes of Love, Loss, and Lewy Body Dementia," is internationally known as a classical music publicist/strategist who for 50 years has helped guide the careers of celebrated artists - Van Cliburn, Gustavo Dudamel, Renee Fleming, Sir Georg Solti and James Taylor....
Dr. Jessi Gold is the Chief Wellness Officer of the University of Tennessee system and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She is also a fierce mental health advocate and highly sought-after expert in the media on everything from burnout to celebrity self-disclosure....
Maddie Norris, author of "The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays," earned her MFA at the University of Arizona and, before that, she was the Thomas Wolfe Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....