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If You Died First, What Would You Want Me to Do?
Jimmy, my husband, actually posed this question in the truck. I laughed and changed the topic. I could not deal with it at the time....
Sep 24, 2018


Celebration!
Dear Dwight and Kathy, I don’t know many people who have “made it” together for fifty years. Fifty years is a long time. And you made it!...
Aug 27, 2018


While I Was Waiting...
Sister, you have been sick for weeks. Sicker than I’ve ever known you to be. I keep looking back over my shoulder, remembering our youth...
Jun 11, 2018


When You Love Someone Who Has Dementia
A little headache. I’m wondering if it’s barometric pressure. A sunny day, then boom! a cloud and sudden splats of rain, then the...
May 28, 2018


When Women "Do Lunch"
What is this about? I probably go to lunch with one of my friends twice a month. I couldn’t care less about where we go, how fancy it is,...
Apr 1, 2018


Goodness
She was probably in her seventies. Salt-and-pepper hair. Her cart was stalled, and she was looking at vases in an aisle in the Dollar...
Mar 19, 2018


Dementia and Alzheimer’s
I’m sharing a poem today. It was written by Bob Hicok. I came across it days before my support group met. (I facilitate a support group...
Mar 12, 2018


It’s Christmas!
Jessica, my mail carrier, beat me to the mailbox yesterday, so I’m taking Christmas cards into downtown Norfork, population 511. My...
Dec 25, 2017


Salvation Army Saved Us
My mother left when I was 14. Daddy sat on the floor in a corner. He drank too much. But I had my six brothers and my five sisters. As...
Dec 11, 2017


Falling
The tail end of fall is falling outside. Leaves pile up. A holy thing. My husband is disturbed by the leaves and wants time to mow them....
Dec 4, 2017
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