Posted 6-18-19 As I mentioned over the winter, one of my favorite rides at Silver Dollar City is and will always be Fire in The Hole! (Pronounced “fi·urrrrrrrr” + “in”+”thuuuhhhh”+ “Hooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhllll!!!”(with a long O). When you ride the ride, this pronunciation will make complete sense. Last weekend, while I was unable to ride the ride,…
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Fun, Familiar Times at the City
Posted 6-17-19 Expect a lot of references to Silver Dollar City, one of my truly favorite places on Earth, in this week’s Digital Cornbread snacks. I was treated with a trip to the park Saturday and spent the day having fun while lamenting that mom couldn’t be there with us all the while. Pete and…
D-Day: Never Forget It
Posted June 6th On June 6th, 1944 Allied troops launched the biggest amphibious (land, air, sea) invasion in the world’s history when they sent over 160,000 brave soldiers onto the beach at Normandy, France to fight back the Nazis. (Note: the town of Springfield, Missouri, in which I work, had just over 160,000 residents at…
The Empress’ New Wheelchair
Posted 5-29-19 Overconfidence can be displayed most clearly in one of two formats: An arrogant, Emporer’s New Clothes kind of way where nobody would dare correct you; a mistaken (or forgotten) sense of one’s own abilities. Mom’s unit has none of category one, but one such lady in the second category, presumably. Ms. F is…
The Five Love Languages with Dementia in Mind
Posted 5-21-19 If you are one of the people 12 people in America that have NOT read Gary Chapman’s 1995 book (or subsequent variations) “The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate”, this piece may make a little less sense than it normally makes…and that says something. Allow me, as a…
The Paradox of Joy
Posted 5-16-19 Yesterday, not 48 hours after scheduling our initial hospice visit for my mom, she did the unthinkable: she had a great day!! The best in 2 months… at least. The false-hope-screaming-kind-of good day. She said at least 20 complete, intelligible sentences, some 19.5 more than she has said the last 2 months. At…
The True Virtuoso
Posted 5-8-19 while tapping my toes… A handful of dust, a worthless piece of clayAnd you breathed the breath of HeavenThen there was a soul, the heart, the hands, the voiceThat could sing of your perfection Life is a symphonyThat only you can playYou know I can hear itThrough the madness everyday (Chorus) Virtuoso, virtuosoThis…
Crossing Life’s Road
Posted 5-7-19 Alzheimer’s and related dementias are a really cruddy set of conditions. (2019 Understatement Sentence of the Year nominee!) The path will vary depending on the type, the parts of the brain affected, the previous health of the patient and other factors, but the end result, as of 5-7-2019 is death…mercifully. The end. (Wow…
Riders on the Storm
Posted May Day, 2019 I won’t say that we were professional storm chasers growing up, but the Applegate household had an semi-unintuitive fascination with tornadoes. We were that family. We were prepared to jump in our house’s crawlspace, accessible through the garage floor, or equally so to zoom east just ahead of the twister to…
Dreaming of Home
Posted 4-25-19 Hey! Eight months from today is Christmas! How is your shopping coming? I am deeply sorry, not sorry. Remember, I love Christmas. 😉 I play Christmas music all the year long! You can take the Mark out of Christmas, but you can’t take the Christmas out of Mark. Regardless, as I lay in…