re: How do you deal with the guilt of living far away from your aging parents?

Pop has lived out of the country for the better part of 20 years. That one is pretty easy to square away.

I had planned on moving my mother out here, but her condition deteriorated so quickly that we put her in memory care before I was able to make arrangements. It's pretty tough to not be near her, but she wouldn't know, anyway. I try to fly back to see her once or twice a quarter.