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…
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 …
Back to School – Make it Easier for Your Child
It’s Back-to-School time again. Even though I know the September Equinox is the official end of summer, I’m always a little sad this time of year as I remember myself as a youth interpreting it as the end of sunshine, outdoors, freedom and frolic. Last Friday I watched the Canadian Show Nature of Things’ episode …
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Grandparent by Choice
I have always viewed being a grandparent as a gift. You see, I never had my own children. I always wanted children. In my teens, I would make lists of baby names. In my mid twenties, I tried desperately to get pregnant. Throughout my thirties, the longing for my own was so strong that I …
Hindsight: My Journey 