Posted 9-27-19 Seldom if ever being one to shy away from beating a dead horse, this will be my last retrospective about Springfield, Missouri’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Behold, my ten favorite moments in the walk: The Entry. We got there at a time that I thought was early and there were hundreds already there….
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Good Grief, Another Garage Sale!
Posted 7/1/19 Growing up an Applegate, we were pretty tight with the money. It wasn’t that we were poor or my folks didn’t work hard. We were fairly middle class-ish and dad worked his rear off at the post office to support his family while mom stayed home with us (until later when she worked…
You Say Tomato, I Say Tomoto
Posted 6-20-19 It is a crazy day in the Applegate world, but I had one little thought relating to words. Some may say “You say tomato, I say tomoto” to this, but it is a pet peeve of mine now and it wasn’t before my mom’s decline with this disease. The word at question?: “Old…
Forgetting the Past
Posted the day after the D-Day Anniversary Some of you may be unaware, but my bachelor’s degree was not in information technologies, the landing spot of my career. My BA was in History from Missouri State University. When I received my original credentials, I was already lamenting the fact that teaching history was such a…
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…
Mom, the Rearranger
Posted 6-1-19 I am going to have to switch to weekday-only posts for a while. My home internet is smelling a lot like the 1980’s Internet. Prodigy internet seemed so fast at the time… 🙁 If something comes up in the meantime, I will still post on the weekends, possibly from a different locale. I…