Sharing wisdom that comes from parenting our parents
Funny how we never seem to outgrow the competition we develop with our parents. Not always an overt or aggressive style of action but a quiet determination to somehow undo in your life what they had carried over from their life. To undo the corruption of an otherwise perfectly serviceable set of personal traits. I …
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 …
Caregiving takes out so much of us that we can get lost - literally. In the same way that we have to bring intention to self-care activities like eating, adding a few daily activities can help restore some of our selves without neglecting any of our caregiving chores.
Funny the connections we develop as caregivers. The funny weird part is we may not discover these changes until long after events have passed. At least I didn’t.
Dad's Back 