About The Author
Meet Lavendel K. Aune
About The Author
Lavendel K. Aune is a writer and visual storyteller whose work captures the emotional complexity of caregiving, identity, and endurance. Her voice is clear, empathetic, and rooted in lived experience.
In Between My Heart and Obligation, Lavendel shares the deeply personal story of what unfolded as her parents’ health declined memory loss, surgeries, and the slow erosion of independence. She documents not just the medical realities, but the emotional toll of showing up day after day, often without recognition, and the internal reckoning that followed.
Her storytelling is shaped by years of navigating hard decisions and invisible labor. She writes with clarity, refusing to dramatize what is already difficult. Instead, she offers readers a lens into the moments that often go unseen the quiet sacrifices, the private doubts, and the strength it takes to keep going.
Lavendel’s work is grounded in honesty and connection. She writes with the reader in mind, hoping her story helps others feel less alone, and offers a deeper look into what it means to be a daughter caught between love, duty, and the search for self.
Meet Lavendel K. Aune
About The Author
Lavendel K. Aune is a memoirist and visual storyteller whose voice resonates with the rawness of lived experience. Her creative work is shaped by years spent in the intimate, unrelenting world of elder care, where time slows, emotions sharpen, and small moments leave lasting scars. Through her writing, she offers no tidy lessons or polished advice. What she offers instead is presence, an open hand in the dark, a voice willing to say what others keep quiet.
Her approach to storytelling is visceral and empathetic, drawing readers into the shadowed corners of memory with unflinching clarity. She brings precision and emotion into every decision. Her narratives dwell in grief, duty, and the ache of love, the kind that asks everything and rarely explains itself. The pages reflect the intensity of her creative efforts: vivid imagery, emotional honesty, and a refusal to turn away from pain.
Beyond prose, Lavendel does not write to instruct; she writes to feel. Her work stands as a witness to sorrow, survival, heartbreak, grief, and the strange beauty of staying.
