Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Insights from our worlds of caregiving can get started by the funniest things. The idea of healing oneself by helping others has been rattling around in my mind for years, but this social media meme started me pursuing the thought. Maybe it was not just me seeing the connection. The Quiet Side Introspection and I …
As election years go, this one has been a doozy for fanciful arguments. The attraction that politics exerts on people has always been a bit of a mystery to me. This year, however, the practical and pragmatic caregiver in me has been poked and irritated. Perhaps it was the defiance of logic by leaders that …
Engagement of crisis is a behavioral trait that often defines what it is to be a caregiver. While we may be a collection of insecurities on the inside, we willingly step into uncertain situations. To this day, I am not sure where this intrinsic motivation comes from, but we get things done when a sensible …
Like many children of a certain era, I was one of the designated channel changers for our family television set. (An early version of the TV remote control.) Jump forward a few years, and I had become the family IT person for programming VCR’s. Then home computing became a reality and I followed that flow …
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