Posted 4-3-19 I love education. I realize my writing style doesn’t point you into seeing me as scream out that I am a particularly smart fella, but I have spent some time…perhaps too much time…in the ol’ university. Fun Fact: I have attended college in 4 different decades (The 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s). That…
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Don’t Forget the Links
Just a reminder that I embed the links to other articles I find interesting in my articles. If I do an “affiliate” article (one my non-profit gets $ for clicking or buying from), I will tell you, although the closest thing I do to that right now is share smile.amazon.com links every once in a…
Wabi Sabi is Not Even a Little Bit Jedi
Posted 4-2-19 I am about as far from being a Buddhist or eastern religion practitioner as Mr. T was from being a jet pilot or perhaps as a vegetarian would be from writing a cookbook on barbecuing hamsters. That being said, there are a lot of “nuggets” of common sense to be mined from this…
The Help is No Joke
Posted 4-1-19 aka April Fool’s Day Being the baby (of 3) Applegate child, I was an interesting little fireball. I was what the child psychologists would have called at the time, “hyperactive”. Now, I am not an etymologist not am I an entomologist 😉 , but I am pretty sure the medical term “hyperactive” comes…
Church
Posted 3-31-19 Church is truly my “happy place”, but, as I mentioned a few days ago at the cornbread table, it is not because of the hyper-exuberance of the pastor, nor is it because of the lasers or the rocking band. It is my happy place because the Bible is opened up and I get…
Grandma’s Stories by Miranda, Her Granddaughter
There is some truth here and some imagination. 🙂 Circa 2011 I love it! 🙂 #EndALZ
Zzzzzzzzzzz
Mom was still zonked today. Teetering back and forth between blaming this slumberamasville season on disease progression or on over-medication is a common mental exercise we, like many of you, face these days. Facts: It does take time to build up enough of a chemistry from taking a medicine to start to work. Mom has…
Understanding
Posted 3-30-19 One of the most challenging things about understanding Alzheimer’s and related dementia (and about mental illness) is misinformation and stigma. Why is it that we can work together and share information so effectively in other conditions like heart disease, stroke and cancer, but information, treatments and cure potential is all over the map…
Goaled Veins
Posted 3-29-19 Flashback, circa 1980. Location: Silver Dollar City (amusement park), nestled in the Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri. Setting: A simpler time and place, in the woods with mockingbirds mocking and crows crowing. The smell of cedar, pork rinds, somewhat damp visitors and joy permeates the air. Just up from the Rube Dugan’s Diving…
Time Out.
Posted 3-28-19 Mom was stable today. Typical for the last couple weeks…tired, fairly happy, not speaking clearly. She uses some of the most fascinating words! A couple of the Sweet 17 are having some significant challenges including one who was sent to time out (behavioral health hospital) to rework her meds. :(She is typically sweet, but…