Posted 10-28-19 Howdy fellow Digital Cornbread nibblers! I trust you had a good week and, if not, I am sorry. I know many of you are caregivers, many of the 36/7/365-6 variety, and I thank you for taking the time to come by today after a long weekend. I had a busy one, as they…
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I Love the Rainy Night
Posted exactly 2 months before Christmas on 10-25-19 Fall has fallen…uhhh…fell…uhh..fellen/felon in the Ozarks. (Sorry…we all have those grammar areas that give us pause. I am capable of doing moderately technically sound writing despite the style I employ here.) The last two days we have enjoyed cool, rainy weather. This is my kind of rainy…
How Much Does She Really Know, Anyway?
Posted 10-24-19 One of the biggest challenges/obstacles to keeping a stream of visitors to a nursing home, or a caregiver’s home for that matter, is the rationale “How much does he/she really know, anyway?”. Is it pointless to visit someone who doesn’t know your name? Why subject yourself to that? I have some comments in…
Happy Hump Day
Posted on Hump Day, 10-23-19 (Warning: this is a Christian piece, more than most. Viewer Discretion is Advised. lol) Happy Hump Day, you’all! I prefer “Hump Day” to Wednesday. It is easier to spell and it isn’t named after a couple false gods of times gone by. I even like the camel commercials. The origin…
On the L.E.V.E.L.: Communicating with a Loved One With Late Stage Dementia
Posted 10-22-19 How fast do you drive? On a scale from Mr. Magoo to Mark Martin, how far right does your speedometer go to find its happy place? I drive 1-2 MPH over the speed limit in Tempo One as I drive to work every day to accommodate for the 1-2 MPH slow my gauge…
From All Alarms
Posted 10-21-19 Leaning on the Everlasting ArmsWhat a fellowship, what a joy divine, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms! Leaning, leaning,Safe and secure from all alarms; Leaning, leaning, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms!O how bright the…
Food for Thought
Posted Friday… 10-18-19 So, I have been thinking about how to help more and more people with less and less time and resources available. Our support group has wonderful potential to help 10-15 people soon as the word gets out, and I expect great things from it. I would like to be able to help…
Sir Rants a Lot, the King of the Shire and a Guy Named Monk
Hit is undern this seventeenth day of October in the year of our Lord, two thousand and nineteen. (It’s about nine o’clock in the morning on 10-17-19) Readest thou at thine own risk. Once upon a time there was an enormous and majestic palace called the Capitis Os Castle. This marvel of engineering was surrounded…
Newly Diagnosed? Don’t Panic, but Do Prepare
Posted 10-16-19 I had a really nice visit recently with a friend who was just diagnosed with a form of dementia. I was able to recall some an article I wrote some time ago about the topic in the conversation, but I would like to touch on the topic again today for him and for…
The Streak
Posted 10-15-19 On May 30, 1982, Cal Ripken Jr. took the field for the Baltimore Orioles and played every single game until September 19, 1998. In doing so, he broke a record most figured was unbreakable: Lou Gehrig’s streak 2,130 games from June 1, 1925 to April 30, 1939. The then third place streak record…