Golden Crown Awards for Mother Lode: Confessions of a Reluctant Caregiver
1.
Best Performance in a Starring Role
Stellajoe
Gretchen
2.
Best Performance in a Supporting Role
David
Elliot
Laurel
Michelle
Rebecca
3.
Best Foreign Language
Dementia
Irritable
Patient
4.
Best Song (listen to the Spotify playlist on the website, or just go by the title!)
"Here Comes the Sun"
"Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better"
"When You Are Old"
"I Live One Day at a Time"
"Seasons of Love"
"Take Me to the Mountain"
5.
Best Set Design (or description)
Paradise (Mt. Rainier Nat'l Park)
Seminary Hill Natural Area
Centralia
The House
6.
Best Action Scene
Skokomish River Ducks (p. 264)
Takhlakh Lake Osprey (p. 146)
Midnight in the ER (p. 174)
7.
Best Editing
She Writes Press
The Queens Writing Circle
Beta Readers
8.
Best Support Crew
Mother Lode Street Team
The Queens Writing Circle
She Writes Press Secret Facebook Groups
9.
Best Video (view on website or YouTube)
Mother Lode: The Trailer
Life on Repeat Podcast
Book Launch Reading
10.
Best Quote
"'You are not a fuck up,' I whisper to myself. 'She is old.'"
"The top of my skull lifts right off my head."
"Letting her be in control of her reality is a gift I can give."
"Who she is now is not her essence."
"We stand in the middle of her kitchen fiefdom with all our ancient anger."
"All she remembers is what she has imagined."
"Each old person fights their own fight against their body on the last leg of the journey."