Posted 6-12-19… but leaving on top of the post list due to its more important content. (Click here to return to the main page for newer content) One of my very favorite resources on the Alzheimer’s Association website (and there are many!) is their cornerstone article “10 Early Signs and Symptoms of Alzheimer’s“. This list…
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Cicada Brood, Comfort Food… and one sore dude.
Posted 8/12/22 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1) Good Friday to you, my friends! Another week buzzes by like a cicada drinking Red Bull. Mom is still about the same. Her blood oxygen sat. is still holding its own in the mid-90s after a couple…
Mom is Strong
Posted 8/8/22 “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” -Proverbs 31:25 (Verse speaks of wisdom…but reminds me of mom….) Monday’s are like… never mind. 🙂 Just dropping a quick post to list some of the ways my mom is strong: She has been on hospice for a…
Birthday Season
Posted 8/5/22 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. -James 1:17 Happy Friday, friends and family! Welcome, too, to Birthday Season at the Applegate House and extended family. For some reason we have an…
NY Times Piece
Posted 8/2/22 I was fortunate to be allowed in to help with an article at the NY Times that published 8/2/22. Here it is: (LINK) It should let you around the paywall. Keep fighting to #EndALZ and don’t be afraid…
Mom: The Tetris Master
Posted 8/2/22 (Also know, to a number goober like me, as 8=2*2*2) From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. -Ephesians 4:16 Hi all! Sorry to have been gone so long. It has been a busy couple…
Trust the Science-ish
Posted 7/26/22 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. -Ecc 5:10 Hi all! Happy Tuesday to each and every one of you this fine morning. Today I am booked to the gills at work, but I have an important topic that I need…
Dominance, Benjamin, and a Good Ole Fashioned Storm (with no offense to lefties)
Posted 7/20/22 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. -Gen 35:18 (Gill’s Commentary: “that she called his name Benoni; which signifies “the son of my sorrow”, having borne and brought him forth in sorrow, and now…
No News is Good News?
Posted 7/18/22 Like cold water to a weary soul,So is good news from a distant land. -Proverbs 25:25 Happy Monday, friends. 🙂 Mondays are just another day. Mondays are just another day. Mondays are just another day. Mondays are just another day. Mondays are just another day. Mondays are just another day. Mondays are just…
Long Time, No See: A Recap of My Trip to Vanderbilt
Posted 7/15/22 But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face. 1 Thess 2:17 (Note: I feel the same way as the Apostle here did. I hate not having time to write, but it has been…
O2 Have More O2
Posted 7/6/22 I will put sinews on you, make flesh grow back on you, cover you with skin and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am the Lord.’” -Ezekiel 37:6 Hi all! Happy Hump Day…the day we set aside weekly as a reminder that we are…