For many years, I review the year on New Year’s Eve. On New Year’s Day, I set forth a map for the year. It may seem silly to some to do this just because the calendar i[...]
With an estimated 100 billion brain cells, are our brains like a giant filing cabinet? If so, what are the similarities between how we file information in our brains vs. in a file [...]
Mem’ries – The way we are Enjoy this parody of Barbra Streisand’s hit, The Way we Were by Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist and animator Walt Handelsman [link to [...]
Now that we’ve entered the 13th b’ak’tun of the Maya Long Count Calendar and are only 4-plus days before the start of the New Year (Julian calendar), TAKE ONE ST[...]
Guest post by Norm McNamara I am often asked, “What, in layman’s terms, is dementia?” I often answer it this way, especially at this time of year. If you can imagine a Christmas tr[...]
Look Back – Ads from Yesteryear While going through piles of paperwork lately, I’ve been reflecting on life. I call this: look back to learn forward. It is part of my o[...]
Former caregiver, Carmen Scherubel was inspired by “I want to go home” to write about her mom’s search for home in a different time. Click above link to review ar[...]
People with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive impairing diseases often say, “I want to go home.” ASK TCV My father who is in the middle stages of Alzheimer&#[...]
My mother died on April Fool’s Day in 1993. She was only 72. I was still in my early 30s — too young and shortchanged from a mother’s lifetime of wisdom. My arriv[...]
Up until 1960s, my Pen Pals and I would mail handwritten letters to each other. In sixth grade, I received a set of felt-tipped colored pens. These were magical in that I now could[...]
You don’t. We get ourselves in too much trouble when we pretend to do anything. Being honest helps us live more in line with the facts of our life — we forgot a person&[...]
Kate Nowak created a four-minute video blessing in 2006. It went viral. We need this more today [updated 2022] than ever. Feel enriched. View it here.[...]
