Posted 2-10-20 I love symmetry, uniformity and the-way-it-should-be-ness. I love it when things work out smoothly and in order. Conversely, I also love studying why this order isn’t always so. You wouldn’t always know it from my home nor my office, but it sparks me much joy when things “work out” or fit perfectly. I…
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The Softer Side of Sadness
Posted 2-7-20 Dateline 1886: The Baldknobbers, a hood-wearing, at first anti-crime/vigilante group including my great-great Grandpa Gil, were gaining traction in the southern Ozarks region. U.S. President Grover Cleveland got married in the White House. After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders with his last band of warriors to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona. October 28 – In New…
Innocence, in a Sense
Posted 12-5-19 Have you ever thought of the broken Alzheimer’s mind as a return to innocence? Like a removal from the cares of this world to a land where joy abounds and your needs should be met and your stress much simpler. I know many do. I am also quite confident, though, that some are…
10 Ways Dementia Reminds Me of My Trip to the Dentist
Posted 2-5-20 Yesterday morning was dentist day for yours truly. No cavities, aside from the between the ears kind… The average adult homo sapien has 32 “permanent” teeth until we start whittling down the number, first with the wisdom teeth, then often through damage or mistreatment. It is possible to keep them until you die…
Leave it On The Field
Posted 2-4-20 2-4-6-8, who do I appreciate? You!!!! You!!!! Yooooooou! Thanks for visiting the Digital Cornbread table this wet Tuesday! I hope everyone is adequately recovered from the Super Bowl flu! I am not prepared to call myself a superfan of anyone besides my Lord, my beautiful wife, my 3 kiddos, and my close/extended and…
Strange Bedfellows
Posted 2-3-20 Happy Monday to all. I hope all of you Chiefs’ fans made it to work this morning. They finally won a Super Bowl for the first time in my lifetime…and that says a lot. Regardless, congrats! Now clean up the mess and let’s start baseball please! No really…please!! The “Big Game” brought together…
OWLS Flu is Upon All of Us! Whooo, Me?
Posted 1-31-20 As the prominent member of the media that I am (clearing throat sounds), I feel obligated to make my readers aware of the next big health scare facing America: OWLS FLU!!!!! I realize that the CoronaVirus is the disease scare du jour, but that makes me all the more want to scream from…
When I Go Home
–or– “Encourage” Posted 1-30-20 Yesterday, among the plethora of odd phrases and challenging to understand onomatopoeias (or is that onomatopoeiam…whatever….) mom said a clear phrase “(Word X, Word Y)……when I go home…”then some other unintelligible phrases. In the context of the “discussion”, I don’t feel like she was being spiritual discussing heaven, but was talking…
Imperfectly Clinging
Posted 1-29-20 Another dainty snow in the Ozarks. A few schools, apparently with a large snow cloud directly over their towns, opted to close, but mostly it is just a pretty and minor inconvenience. I am pretty booked the next two days, so the articles will be sparse…more than normal…in content and duration. I just…
10 Things You Can Learn About Dementia from Weight Watchers (WW)
Posted 1-28-20 Howdy all! I trust your week is going swimmingly, or at least better than some weeks. 🙂 Mine is fine. Mom is still doing about the same as of yesterday. Her doctor is pleased with her slight weight loss, something we have worked on carefully by reducing some portions out of fear that…