Posted 9-18-19 What a week! Prepping for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s, a crazy work schedule, honey-dos, training with a new, good friend to begin our own Alzheimer’s support group…and much more. Sigh. 😉 Today will be a bit of a rerun if you follow me in Facebook, but it is a good kind of…
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Walkin’ on Sunshine
Posted 9-17-19 Saturday is the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Springfield and the weather looks grim. I verified it with the Walk guru ninja and she said it is rain or shine! We are very excited and will walk proudly for a cure and a world without Alzheimer’s! This week, with walk prep and all,…
8 MORE Things You Can Learn About Dementia from Fishing
Posted 9-16-19 I hope you all had a great weekend! I had several events of note, at least to me. We had our 61st Annual Applegate Family Reunion, always a good time of fun, food and fellowship. Later Saturday I went fishing again to clear my mind a little. Some use prayer (very wise), others…
Twas the Night Before…a Cure
Posted Friday the 13th, 2019 with a Full Moon Twas the Night before Full Moon, when all through the Home. Not a person was stirring, but three with sundowners who started to roam; Family pictures were hung, on their room walls with string, as we all hope that a cure and a white flower would…
10+ Things You Can Learn About Dementia from Fishing
Posted 9-12-19 Hi all! Happy Thursday! A couple weeks ago I got another rare opportunity (these days): I went fishing, this time with my daughter. She is an art major in college and I thought it would be a fun bonding time for us to find a fishin’ hole so I could fish and she…
Are You Prepared?
Posted 9-11-19 Today marks a day I, and everyone who watched the events unfold on TV or in person, will never forget. Lots of initiatives have now been tied to this day (Patriot Day, lots of good works ideas), but I want to suggest another easy one: use 9/11 every year to remind yourself to…
More Than Words Can Say
Posted 9-10-19, which, like the next several days, is the same forward as backward….a palindrome) Yesterday was another pretty good day for mom. She is sleeping/resting much more these days, so much so that my sister, her daughter and her daughter’s little boy visited yesterday at a time mom would usually be awake, only to…
On a Bicycle Built For Two
Posted 0-9-9-0 (Actually 9-9-19, but the first looks like a bicycle for 2:) ) The older I get, the more I realize that we really live two lives simultaneously. Not in a feline nine lives kind of way, mind you, but two nonetheless. We think we live the life we planned to live but we…
Billows Part 4: Fighting the B.I.L.L.O.W.S.
Posted 9-6-19 As we wrap up this odd little topic, I need to reiterate what a billow is from the first piece: A billow, according to the beloved Merriam-Webster online version, is one of two things: a wave especially : a great wave or surge of water the rolling (billows of the sea) a rolling mass (as of flame…
Billows Part 3: When Sorrows Like Sea Billows Roll
Posted 9-5-19 I realize we have covered this song a little in past episodes of Digital Cornbread, but I cannot finish a decent list that covers defeating the billows of dementia without this wonderful hymn. “It Is Well With My Soul” was written by an imperfect man (like us all), a lawyer named Horatio Gates…