An Interview with Ramie Liddle Co-Author of "Driving Miss Norma"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters was honored to welcome Ramie Liddle to the show for an interview about the viral sensation, "Driving Miss Norma" and to learn about saying "Yes" to living.
Ramie Liddle is the best-selling co-author of Driving Miss Norma: An Inspirational Story About What Really Matters at the End of Life (HarperOne, 2017) and is a dynamic a public speaker. As well as being a high school counselor, ordained minister, long-distance boat captain, and one-time cherry farmer, Ramie is foremost a nomad. She has traveled extensively by land and sea throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada with her husband, Tim, and their standard poodle and therapy dog, Ringo.
The traveling team became fortuitous caregivers for Tim’s 90-year-old mom, Norma, after she received a cancer diagnosis only two days after her husband, Leo, suddenly died. The approach they took toward Norma’s end-of-life care attracted the attention of millions around the world. Ramie has since become a vocal advocate for positive end-of-life experiences for both the dying and those who care for them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, |
| 0:06.0 | with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:26.8 | Thank you. Welcome to All Home Care Matters. Today we are excited to welcome Ramey Little, the co-author of the book, Driving Miss Norma. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome, Ramey. |
| 0:33.5 | Thanks. |
| 0:34.2 | So happy to be here. |
| 0:35.3 | We're happy to have you. |
| 0:36.7 | So, Ramey, for some viewers and listeners who may not be familiar with this truly remarkable story, Driving Miss Norma, why don't you share with us what Driving Miss Norma's all about? |
| 0:46.5 | Sure. I guess I have to start with the fact that my husband and I are nomads and we've been traveling around the country for |
| 0:54.9 | um decades in a 19-foot airstream travel trailer and every winter we would spend time in |
| 1:04.5 | in baha mexico and every summer we would find our way somehow or another back to northern |
| 1:10.7 | michigan where tim's parents lived and um every summer we would find our way somehow or another back to northern Michigan where |
| 1:11.5 | Tim's parents lived and you know they were in good shape we would do their honey-do list and enjoy |
| 1:20.4 | their company and and that was our routine there was always kind of an elephant in the room |
| 1:27.2 | that we never really got over |
| 1:29.8 | being able to talk about what happens when they're not in great shape. Right. And in the summer of |
| 1:37.0 | 2015, we were driving north and saying, you know, this is our year. You know, we feel armed and ready to go to have this conversation with them about really, |
| 1:48.4 | you know, you're 88 and 90 years old, and we better talk about what the future looks like. |
| 1:56.7 | And we arrived into their driveway. |
| 1:59.3 | Typically, they would come out and greet us. Norma would always |
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