Josh H. Hickman Journalist, Artist, & Author of "Forgetting"
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
All Home Care Matters and our host, Lance A. Slatton were honored to welcome Josh H. Hickman as guest to the show.
About Josh H. Hickman:
Josh H. Hickman was born in Washington D.C. and raised in various parts of Texas. He studied painting and sculpture at the Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, TX, later studying writing and film at the University of Texas at Austin.
A national award-winning journalist, his previous comic novels and short story collections include Through Tick & Tinn: The True Story of the Greatest Unknown Comedy Team Ever Known, Five Slices of Fear: A Connoisseur's Hoagie of Horror, Ambergris, The Kinfolk: Cult of Sex & Cheese, I Am Luney: The Untold Story of the World's Naughtiest Man, and Songs in the Key of H: Tales of Irony and Insinuation.
He has also produced three albums of spoken-word/music "word-jazz" albums, A Handful of Love, Something for the Ladies, and This House Is Haunted. After living and working in Hollywood for fourteen years, he returned to Dallas in 2019. His writing has appeared in anthologies such as the Central Texas Writer's Society and Beyond 2024 and publications such as Hindsight literary magazine and Park Cities People and Preston Hollow People newspapers.
Also a noted artist, his paintings have been shown in various group and solo exhibitions in Texas and California. He lives with his dog Sammy in Dallas, Texas.
About Forgetting:
Forgetting chronicles the unexpected life circumstances which led author Josh Hickman to his three-plus year journey of solo caregiving for a mother with whom he had a very difficult relationship. Left with the responsibility of taking care of her as her dementia set in, he shares his personal insights and struggles learning how to navigate through the process. This book is a highly relevant, timely and valuable resource for young people currently dealing with this evolving dilemma, who might have lived through it or who might be experiencing it in the near future.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to all home care matters, the show where we discuss all things home care with discussions |
| 0:06.7 | on important age-related matters and topics. Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
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| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:26.7 | If this is your first time visiting us here at the show, we want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:32.0 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is, and that's why we try and make each episode here at all home care matters, |
| 0:38.0 | something that will hopefully matter to you. Today, we are honored to welcome a remarkable guest, |
| 0:43.6 | author, artists, and journalists, Josh H. H. Hickman. Welcome, Josh. How are you? Hey, good. Thank you. |
| 0:51.3 | How are you? Good. Thanks for being here today. You know, I've personally been looking forward to this interview from the first time you and I met and spoke. |
| 1:00.6 | Because you're bringing, I think, to the forefront an issue in an aspect of caregiving that really just doesn't get discussed or talked about. |
| 1:10.4 | And there's probably a million reasons for that. |
| 1:13.9 | But you're bringing to the forefront the issue of caring for a loved one when maybe, |
| 1:19.7 | and again, my word's not yours, when they maybe didn't reciprocate that care earlier on in life, |
| 1:25.4 | whether it be a parent, a child, you know, what have you. And, |
| 1:29.2 | you know, you wrote your book forgetting. And I want to have you first kind of start off with |
| 1:33.8 | giving a synopsis of what forgetting is about. Yeah, I wrote it because, as you say, I had, |
| 1:41.4 | there weren't many books out there about caregiving for a loved one where |
| 1:47.0 | the relationship was not good. |
| 1:50.0 | You know, our relationship was terrible. |
| 1:51.6 | And it was kind of the book that I wish I had to read when I was going through this process, |
| 1:58.5 | because everything was either, you know, self, kind of cheerful self-help |
| 2:04.4 | books or medical books about dementia, caring for your parent who was fabulous and you |
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