Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Family relationships come in only one format: complicated. There are some common themes that we can share amongst ourselves. An unwieldy healthcare system and certain inevitabilities of aging that connect us together. Each relationship still retains a uniqueness that takes us into uncharted psychic and emotional waters. Real Life 101. Developing our own balance appears …
For anyone who has been transformed by a caregiving experience, there is a discovery process about the subtle (and not subtle!) changes that occur in our personalities that extend out to our personal relationships. The role reversals and the wholehearted pushes to move outside of our comfort zone that result in altering not just who …
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I’m spending a few days in a conference with a bunch of coworkers. Nice venue in the desert with all of the amenities that I normally would skip but it was touted as the first in-person event since COVID-19 upset everyone’s plans a couple of years ago. A chance to be normal and face-to-face once …
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We really do have time machines these days. Have you ever used Google Maps to go back and look at a childhood neighborhood? See how things have changed. See how they haven’t. I moved around a lot as a kid, so there are lots of locations to look up. Each one with particular memories of …
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