#

MEET RICHARD CAITS

A man who has worked and lived in New York City for most of his life, he has worked for an independent labor union known as the Organization of Staff Analysts for about ten years and then for NYC311 for about two years. Richard Caits now resides in California with his partner. Vanilla Ice Cream Strawberry Smoothies And Lots of Drugs was written on the basis of his experiences with providing his mother with urgent medical care after she fell ill. The impetus to write the memoir came from seeing how difficult it was to get her the treatments she needed and the emotional turmoil that came with trying to take care of her during that tumultuous time.

#