Posted 7-22-19 Anybody else out there at the Digital Cornbread table have a pet peeve? You know, that thing that reaaallly bugs you when you see it in the wild? Well, unfortunately for my character, I have as many pet peeves as Adrian Monk has phobias. Here are just a few that come to mind:…
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Mephistopheles is Not Your Name
Posted 7-19-19 Oh the joys of nature! I love a pretty sunset, the sound of a Hoot Owl or a smell of freshly-cut grass like the next guy, but sometimes nature is downright inconvenient! Today is a good example. I have to work from home today because the rental of which we call our humble…
Storytime :)
Posted 7-18-19 My brain is different than many (Understatement alert!!) As you surely have noticed as you sit at the digital cornbread table, I think and express my thoughts quite often in analogies and little stories. Today is not going to be an exception to this. Story 1: I drive daily on a very busy…
New Faces are Awesome… and Challenging
Posted 7-17-19 Update: Yesterday was pretty uneventful. Mom was happy and ate well. She made a few funny wise-cracks which is always fun. They didn’t always make sense, but neither do mine. 😉 We welcomed a new resident to the Sweet 17 yesterday, a sweet lady I will call Mrs. Pearl since her real initial…
Jail or Ark?
Posted 7-16-19 Building on what I talked about yesterday, a tad, is a memory unit like a prison or is it more like something else? My stepdad loves the nursing home concept for the Sweet 17 and, to a point, for mom. He likens it not to a prison at all, but to an Ark….
The Bird Woman of Alz-catraz
Posted 7-15-19 Pretty uneventful weekend for mom, which, in my book, is just fine. Minus a cure she will not “get better”, as such. There will be good days and there will be bad ones as we hope and pray (!!) for a cure for Alzheimer’s/dementia. I am not giving up. I know cures…and miracles…happen…
Oh Those Moments!
Posted 7-12-19 Hindsight truly is 20-19, isn’t it? I see crystal clearly now many ways mom used to make light of her declining memory and, in advance, start preparing me and the rest of us for where we are now. I can’t say with 100% confidence that she was consciously doing this, but she sure…
Tortoise v. Hare
Posted 7-11-19 We lost another of the Sweet 17 yesterday. She was in the third or fourth wave of ladies entering mom’s facility (not one of the original band…). Sadly, they seem to come and go very quickly, either by changing facilities, by moving into the general population when they cease to be a flight…
Wormyville
Posted 7-10-19 For much of my childhood, we lived in a neighborhood nicknamed Wormyville. This Beaver Cleaver-esque community could have been named this because the roads wormed every which way since they really seldom went East/West or North/South in any sense, but it was actually named that way after the original developer, a nice man…
It’s All Downhill From Here
Posted 7-5-19 I hope each of you had a happy and healthy (and safe!!!) July 4th! I am a pretty patriotic fellow and I love the holiday. 🙂 We watched our local fireworks show with patriotic joy even with the hummingbird-sized mosquitoes circling us like little zinging blood-vultures. A good time was had by all!…