Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Life gets complicated but it really can get simpler. More accurately, our approach to Life can be made simpler. Life will always be complicated. It all starts with simplifying. Finding the joy in a summer afternoon in Nature, or just the welcome voice of a friend on the phone (sometimes even an email). Recognizing the …
If you are like me, many of us are classified as a digital immigrant. That is, we did not grow up with computers or electronic devices in our environments. Many of us have learned to adapt as our worlds have become increasingly technology dependent. Technology has become so commonplace in our lifetimes that we have …
In case you have not tried it, writing about caregiving experiences can be very therapeutic. Whether viewing events in life’s rear-view mirror or swimming chest deep in the caregiving experience, writing lays out a lot of the details for the writer to reflect upon. You will discover some especially cool “a-ha’s” along the way that …
I wrote myself a note. “Where did the stories of courage go?” After over 2 years of being distracted by the spread of fear by our leadership and media, the motivations of those speakers are now becoming clear to see. The caregiving experience puts our feet squarely on the ground, for the most part. We …
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