“The Dementia Heist”
Did you ever lie to your parent for their own good?
My latest illustration for the TIES column of the New York Times is about hard dilemmas children face sometimes.
"I feel like the worst daughter, but according to doctors and social workers, we’re doing the most caring thing. We had to trick my mother into the memory care center. The doctors called it “therapeutic lying.”
“The Caretaker of the Chin Hairs.”
How well do you remember your parent’s body?
My latest illustration for TIES Column at the NYTimes about mothers, daughters and their bodies. “My attention to her most intimate needs grew in stages as she required it, so that I almost didn’t notice we had crossed every physical boundary together — until suddenly we had. Until suddenly she was a body that had died holding my hand, and a body I dressed for the last time as she would have wanted me to, as I knew how to so exactly by then, as if that body were my very own.”
“Harvesting Dinner During a Soccer Tournament.”
Squirrel, raccoon or at least deer for dinner, anyone? Why not? After all we are all part of nature. What was your most adventurous dinner?
My recent illustration for the TIES column at the NewYork Times:
"Eating wild food is part of our family life, but our kids also value fitting in and being liked in the ever-changing adolescent theater of normalcy.
Harvesting Dinner During a Soccer Tournament
“Eating wild food is part of our family life, but our kids also value fitting in and being liked in the ever-changing adolescent theater of normalcy.”
“Flying the Flags of Friendship.”
Do you cherish a special talisman from a dear one who passed away?
My latest illustration for this week TIES section of the NYTimes:
Flying the Flags of Friendship
“From Boston to the Bronx, North Carolina to New Jersey, I picture each of these women wearing one of my aunt’s scarves, not as a mourning shawl, but as a wrap woven with memory.”
Do you cherish a special talisman from a dear one who passed away?
Flying the Flags of Friendship
“From Boston to the Bronx, North Carolina to New Jersey, I picture each of these women wearing one of my aunt’s scarves, not as a mourning shawl, but as a wrap woven with memory.”
“ How to Be the Go-to House.”
Do you like a house full of kids or peace and quiet? Some people like it crazy.
My latest illustration for this week TIES section of the NYTimes:
Would you like a house full of kids or peace and quiet? Some people like it crazy.
Yvetta Fedorova’s latest illustration for this week TIES section of the NYTimes:
https://www.nytimes.com/…/f…/how-to-be-the-go-to-house.html
“A Handbook for Grieving.”
Go funeral dress shopping. When the saleswoman asks about the event, say: “Dressier than office, but not as fun as cocktail.”
A Handbook for Grieving
Go funeral dress shopping. When the saleswoman asks about the event, say: “Dressier than office, but not as fun as cocktail.”
“My Invisible Brother”
Sometimes I find myself resenting my brother for never having been born.
The latest illustration for the TIES column at NYTimes “Nursing Juliet”
“In a world that relentlessly enforces limits, the love of a pet is a refuge for unconstrained emotion, especially for a child.”
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Yvetta Fedorova's illustration for Boston Globe about friendship.
Yvetta Fedorova's personal piece for Friendship Day celebration.
