Posted 9-3-19 Happy Monday Tuesday to all!!! It is going to be a great week! I am super thankful every day that I have some folks that read my chicken scratchings here… and that they comment and support and do some things that help defeat this disease. And, it will be defeated one way or…
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Happy Labor Day to All
Posted 9-2-19 I will be spending the Labor Day holiday recouping and preparing for another good week today. Here are a couple cornerstone pieces from the past for your consideration: https://digitalcornbread.com/ill-take-reasons-i-hate-alzheimers-for-800-alex/ Thank you for visiting the site/FB page. I appreciate you more than you know! 🙂 Update: Yesterday mom was still quite tired, but still…
Doodling the Days Away: Mom, the Creative One
Posted 8-30-19 Hi all! Welcome back to the Digital Cornbread table this threshold day of the long Labor Day weekend! Be careful out there on the roads this weekend! I am going to revisit one aspect of mom today that I have addressed before, but if you are to know her, you need this one:…
Throwback Thursday at the Table
Posted 8-29-19 I am citing for your consideration a couple rerun posts as a reminder from whence we have come. I am sick today (respiratory). I am surprised it took me a few hundred visits to the nursing home before I finally caught some plague from that place…but it is here. Here are a few…
Is the Brain a Muscle?
Posted 8-28-19 Maybe the title would be better stated “Is the brain LIKE a muscle”? I have wondered that ever since mom was diagnosed with a “mild kind of dementia” around a decade ago. Can brain exercise prevent dementia? Can it slow the progression? Did it slow the progression with mom? I mean, she played…
Speaking of Tethered: With a Ball & Chain
Posted 8-27-19 I am an IT Professional by trade although I have a host of hats. Yesterday’s storm knocked out the internet at mom’s nursing home. Mayhem, chaos, lions, tigers and bears, (oh my!) ensued. How do we function without the internet???? Some panicked, others rejoiced. All had their jobs take longer. So, how do…
Is It Recess Time Yet?? Part II
Posted 8-26-19 After Friday’s gem (sigh) about playground equipment, I got to thinkin’…there was much more on our playground and neighboring park than I originally remembered. Therefore, you would be short-changed if you didn’t get “the rest of the story“. Never wanting you to be short of my drivel, here it goes: The Teeter Totters–…
Is it Recess Time Yet??
Posted 8-23-19 What was your favorite mode of playground-induced near death experience when you was a grade school kiddo? I was a elementary/middle school punk in the late 1970’s and early 80’s. At my little (now huge) town we had the whole gamut of playground gear. Not like today, mind you, with thoughtful and wrap-them-in-a-bubble-suit…
Just Smellin’ in the Rain
Posted 8-22-19 It is raining today in the Ozarks. In some seasons it rains quite a bit here, but late summer we are prone to decent stretches without the wet stuff. One thing I find interesting is rain smells and the sometimes lack thereof. Regardless of the science of smell, of which a lot can…
Aging is NOT For the Birds
Posted 8-21-19 Warning: this may be a little odd and different than the normal piece. Just sayin’. First of all, have you ever wondered why is something is said to be “for the birds”? Thank you very much Mr. Internet for saving me three hours of searching at the library. 🙂 If I ever convert…