Aging Parents
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ALZHEIMER’S & THE GIFT OF FORGETTING
“Only ONCE did Granny say to me during her Alzheimer’s years, “I think I am losing my memory.” It was towards the end, in the middle of that period when she was wearing a diaper and I was re-instructing her on how to use a spoon. She didn’t even know my name and my first… Read more
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KISSING YOUR TOMATOES!
“When I think about it, though, it really is the ‘little things’ in life that often make the deepest impressions on us. For the last few years, when my husband gets up before I do, he makes me a cup of coffee and leaves it on the counter. Even though he has done this at… Read more
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HELEN HUDSON HERE: BABY BOOMER SANDWICH ON WRY
“but who would ever have guessed that those barefoot, pot smoking, long-haired, free love children would find themselves so ‘un’free 40 years later?” Read more
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CATS MAY HAVE NINE LIVES—WE DON’T
“My mother got that dementia thing,” he told me. “Put her in a home and that was that. Don’t know what all the fuss is about. You can put ’em anywhere. Doesn’t matter. They don’t know where they are anyway.” Read more
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THE “A” WORD
“She kissed tomatoes in the market, talked to the TV set when it wasn’t on and covered everything in our house with Kleenex.” Read more
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CAREGIVERS, UNSUNG YET SINGING
“Because she had no memory, we often told her it was our birthday simply to have the joy of hearing her sing that familiar refrain to us.” Read more
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ALZHEIMER’S AND “KISSING TOMATOES”
Our elders have given us EVERYTHING and yet we abandon them in their last chapter. Our babies, while precious and sacrosanct, have yet to offer us anything. Read more
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AGEFULLY AGING 