Alison Acheson – Medium

Alison Acheson

Featured Book

Dance Me to the End

Dance Me to the End

A profoundly honest and intensely personal story of a woman who cares for her husband after the devastating terminal diagnosis of ALS.

2019

Stories

Pinned

Alison Acheson
in
The Wind Phone

A Last Wedding Anniversary and a Chair in a Trunk

Portland and marrow and hidden things

Jul 17

A Last Wedding Anniversary and a Chair in a Trunk

Jul 17

Pinned

Alison Acheson
in
Thirty over Fifty

A Landlord Seeks Forgiveness

What was in that life-changing rent break?

Jul 9

A Landlord Seeks Forgiveness

Jul 9

Pinned

Alison Acheson
in
Thirty over Fifty

Something Human Happened on the Way To City Hall

Kindness and a stuffed fox

Jul 1

Something Human Happened on the Way To City Hall

Jul 1

Pinned

Alison Acheson
in
Lives Well Lived

Lives Well Lived — a New Publication

Tell us a story and call it an obituary

Jun 5

Lives Well Lived — a New Publication

Jun 5

Pinned

Alison Acheson
in
The Unschool for Writers

The Spiritual in Our Writing

Human hunger for resonant meaning

Sep 17, 2023

The Spiritual in Our Writing

Sep 17, 2023

Alison Acheson
in
The Unschool for Writers

Those Writing Class Trigger Warnings

What are they good for?

Oct 2

Cyclist freestyling on an outdoor handrail set aflame

Oct 2

Alison Acheson
in
The Unschool for Writers

When Is the Right Time to Write Memoir?

How long should you “wait”?

Sep 28

author sharing her memoir with a group in a hospice-volunteer program

Sep 28

Alison Acheson
in
Thirty over Fifty

Walking Out of the Hospital

After four days in the emergency ward, my mother had had enough

Sep 27

medical professional holding stethoscope, arms crossed over chest

Sep 27

Alison Acheson
in
Middle-Pause

The Sorriest Part of Being the Designated Caregiver

Growing and pruning the old Phone Tree

Sep 23

The author’s 89 year old mother in the hospital, post breakfast, smiling.

Sep 23

Alison Acheson
in
The Unschool for Writers

Writing Cairn by Cairn

Forget Doctorow’s headlights

Sep 15

Writing Cairn by Cairn

Sep 15

Alison Acheson

Alison Acheson

Book Author

Friend of Medium

Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days With ALS--caregiving memoir. My pubs here: LIVES WELL LIVED, UNSCHOOL FOR WRITERS, and editor for WRITE & REVIEW.

Following

See all (2,682)

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams