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.[...]

Sometimes, it’s how we look upon the details of our lives that makes the BIGGEST difference. You may not believe this while carrying the world’s burdens upon your shoul[...]