Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
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 …
In a caregiving relationship, there is more to the story than just helping another person with their problems. There is an intimacy between people that comes with this sort of relationship and there is something more. There is that ominous something else in the room. Something only glimpsed out of the corner of the eye. …
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