Being a caregiver to someone inflicted with Alzheimer’s Disease can be all consuming. Hopefully this might help…
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In Honour of Alzheimer’s Month 2
Watching a parent, or any loved one, die this way is brutal. My heart goes out to anyone witnessing this slow death…
In Honour of Alzheimer’s Month
Back in 2019, I wrote 3 short essays about my mother who passed a few years earlier from Alzheimer’s Disease…
Canada More Proud Than Ever!
As the world learns how strong and free Canada truly is, its people rejuvenate national pride. Social media is flooded with proclamations of how adults demonstrate strength, clarity, consideration, inclusivity, and poise in citizenship, leadership, and relationship-building. We’re taking the higher road. An example is this week’s move to by the Canadian Government to halt …
What Keeps Us Young
I live on a street of small houses mostly built 75 to 100 years ago. Its residents are eclectic: seniors who’ve lived here for ages, young families who’ve purchased their ‘starter homes’, and because we live near a university, transient students in rental homes. There are often curb conversations about how busy the younger folk …
No One Heeded Her Advice
I wrote this six years ago when Margaret Atwood warned us about Trump…little did we know…
Perspective
So, what got me thinking about perspective? While sitting at my computer one day last week, the background TV was on an episode of Life After People on Story Television and they were specifically discussing what would happen to Detroit’s buildings 40 years after a population disappearance. They kept mentioning how the harsh weather extremes …
Well Played, Prime Minister!
In his first press conference since winning the Canadian election, yesterday Mark Carney offered straight talk. No fanfare, no bravado, just direct plans for Canada’s future. As he often does, our Prime Minister provided a hockey analogy saying that Canadians play opposite each other on many different teams, but when it comes to the Olympics …
Do Most Couples Talk?
Finding your soulmate later in life has both challenges and rewards. The challenges include being set in your ways and carrying baggage from previous relationships and life in general. Without sounding too corny the benefits can be summed up in the Streisand/Adams song: “I finally found someoneWho knocks me off my feetI finally found the …
Get Over It, Canada!
So, Mark Carney remains as Prime Minister. Anyone who knows me knows that’s what I was hoping for. Actually, I would have been happy if the Liberals had won with a majority, but I’ll take it. Kudos to the man who wants to play hardball with Trump. But that’s not all. Carney wants to build …
Hindsight: My Journey 