Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
As we pull ourselves out of the wreckage of the pandemic world, our lived experience is full of surprises. A normal world has emerged that does not quite meet the expectations we dreamt about during those crazier days. I have not even heard anyone mention the “new normal” in quite a while. I think we …
Maybe I am just more sensitive to people’s frustrations with life lately, but I see many struggling with trying to get the answer they want out of a question that has already provided an answer. They persist in pursuing the same problem, using the same methods, and yielding the same answer over and over again. …
I like control. I like that sense that I have the ability to change things to suit my desires. I just wish it were true. Putting Feet on the Ground Once over the initial shock of confronting a caregiving crisis, the cocky youngster in me decided that this should be easy to whip. Such hubris …
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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 …
