Reunited and Learning ASL
My mom is learning ASL to communicate post-stroke.
Time to Write Again?
Pre-Christmas Travel Writing I jump from one app to another. Jigsaw puzzle to reading to writing. Back and forth, writing and jigsaw. Uneasy. Jittery. Uneasy. Not at ease. Tense. Guilty. Dramatic, yes, but [...]
Caregiving Can Wear You Down #RealTalkAboutCare
Since Thanksgiving weekend, I've been sick with an upper respiratory infection (URI). As an asthmatic, URI's tend to go to my lungs. My son, too, is sick and in bed (no way for [...]
Mini Thanksgivings
This weekend my sister visited and we celebrated Thanksgiving twice with our parents. Friday we joined our mother at her memory care community and joined their festivities. That afternoon and early dinner went [...]
Shedding a Few Tears
It's been a year. It's been a year since I noticed that my mother hadn't taken her turn in Words with Friends. It's been a year since my mother was verbal. It's been a [...]
I'm at a Loss…
My son has missed WAY too much school this year. He's attending a private school where he gets one-on-one attention and learns at his own pace, so he simply falls behind and the [...]
Flight Back Home
Friday, July 15th Last Saturday, the day after we returned from Oregon, my mother was psychiatrically hospitalized for the third time since her stroke last November. Yesterday morning, I met with the treatment team [...]
Writing on a Plane
Travel Journal from Las Vegas to Portland On my way, our way, to Oregon to visit family. Tonight driving out to the coast to stay at the Adobe. Tomorrow Jennifer is visiting from [...]
Brain Dead
All three of us – my son, my husband and me – are sick with a virus of some sort – flu, perhaps. Exhaustion I already felt now worsened by deep fatigue achy [...]
I'm a Good Daughter, I Promise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJaUmMNrHY Okay. I pulled into a parking lot to adjust the camera. I like driving with the windows open. So we're going to get a lot of, we're going to get a lot [...]